The Kollegium oversees the operation of the Institute and decides over proposals for potential future workshops, schools, fellowships, and research in teams at the ESI based on a peer review process and available resources.
Decisions on future thematic programs at the ESI are made by a Scientific Advisory Board that is composed of six to eight international peers.
[5] The current ESI Director is Christoph Dellago; the Scientific Advisory Board is chaired by Sandra Di Rocco.
[7] The recipients of the ESI Medal to date are The private association Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics was founded in April 1992 under the auspices of the Austrian Federal Minister of Science, Erhard Busek, and upon the initiatives of Peter W. Michor and Walter Thirring.
Walter Thirring was elected president of the association at the first general assembly on 27 May 1992, with deputies Wolfgang Reiter (to represent the Ministry of Science), Peter W. Michor, Heide Narnhofer, and Julius Wess.
This evaluation was conducted by a panel composed of Jürgen Jost, Nigel Hitchin (chair), Nicolai Reshetikhin, Robbert Dijkgraaf, and Vincent Rivasseau.
[10] A second evaluation to review the following five years of operation was carried out in 2008 by a panel of Jean-Michel Bismut, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Peter Goddard (chair), Felix Otto, and Scott Sheffield.