Jožef Stefan Institute

Jožef Stefan Institute
The institute's symbol is the abbreviation IJS in the five-bit code ITA2 for punched tape.
Established1949
ChairLeon Cizelj
Staff1170 (2022)
AddressJamova ulica 39
Location
Ljubljana
,
Slovenia
Websitewww.ijs.si

The Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) (Slovene: Institut »Jožef Stefan«, IJS) is the largest research institute in Slovenia. The main research areas are physics, chemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, information technologies, reactor physics, energy, and the environment. At the beginning of 2022, the institute had 1,170 employees, of whom 568 were PhD holders.

The mission of the Jožef Stefan Institute is the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge at the frontiers of natural science and technology for the benefit of society at large through the pursuit of education, learning, research, and development of high technology at the highest international levels of excellence.