Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences
News and Events of our Faculty
New Curriculum for Bachelor of Science of Atmosphärenwissenschaften starting 1. October 2025, here.
New Curriculum vor Master of Environmental Meteorology and Climate Physics starting 1. October 2025 here.
On "Tiroler Hochschultag 2025", Tyrol's eight universities (fhg, FH Kufstein, KPH Edith Stein, MCI, MedUni, PH Tirol, University of Innsbruck, UMIT) will present their wide range of study programmes.
Starting at 9:00 a.m. on 6 November 2025 our faculty will present its various fields of study, explains global processes and ecological interrelationships on topics such as climate change, glacier changes or natural hazards in exciting lectures, guides visitors through the institutes and demonstrates experiments in the IAO laboratory.
We look forward to seeing you there! Presentations will be held in german language: Download the programme of our faculty >>
Prizes will be awarded in two categories for the 2024/25 academic year:
- Best assessed dissertation
- Best assessed master's thesis
Find the prerequisites here>>
Deadline: 31 January 2026
3 Silver medals and 4 Bronze medals (3 times in the team competitions ITFI - International Team Field Investigation & ESP - Earth Science Project) and an incredible individual Bronze medal (Leonardo Leschanz in the individual competition "Individual Test")! => News from ieso.at
In the presence of Vice-Rector Jeanette Walde (VR Teaching and Students), outstanding dissertations and a master's thesis (completed in the 2023/24 academic year) from our faculty were honoured at a ceremony held at the Archaeological Museum on 13 June 2025. The winners are => here
Lilian Camilla Schuster, MSc, a student at our faculty, was awarded one of the LFUI's Best Student Paper Awards at the Vice-Rectorate for Research's summer ceremony on 24 June 2025. The title of her paper (with seven co-authors), published in Nature Climate Change (February 2025), is: Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5°C.
Newsroom of the University
- Arctic in Transition: Greenland’s Caves Preserve Ancient Climate Archive
In a remote cave in northern Greenland, a research team led by geologists Gina Moseley, Gabriella Koltai, and Jonathan Baker has discovered evidence of a significantly warmer Arctic. The cave deposits show that the region was free of permafrost millions of years ago and responded sensitively to rising temperatures. The findings, published in Nature Geoscience, provide new insights into past climate conditions and their relevance for today’s climate protection efforts.
21.10.2025 - Workshop on Natural Hazards and Risks
Thirty researchers from the social and natural sciences gathered in Innsbruck to discuss inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to natural hazard risk research. The meeting focused on mountain regions.
12.06.2025
We introduce ourselves
Our faculty comprises 36 professors and lecturers, 27 research assistants (such as guest professors, senior lecturers, senior scientists and university assistants), 72 project staff, 30 student assistants and over 20 colleagues in administration and laboratories.
In the winter semester of 2024/25, approximately 1,600 people studied at our faculty. 434 started their studies in the winter, approximately 700 students are enrolled in a bachelor's program, approximately 400 in a master's program, and 90 people are working on their dissertations.
Contact us
Dean's Office
Innrain 52f
6020 Innsbruck, Austria