Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research

The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) is an international center for advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences.

Through a lecture and seminar series, the KLI also offers a platform for the critical public discussion of current themes in the biosciences.

Founded in 1990 by Rupert Riedl, followed by Gerd B. Müller (1998-2023) and Philipp Mitteröcker (since 2024) as presidents of the institute, the KLI is funded by a private trust and receives additional support from the Province of Lower Austria.

[2] Fellows are scientists and scholars (e.g., in the biological and social sciences and in the humanities) who come to the KLI to work on a project corresponding to the aims of the institute.

[4] Past and current fellows have come from a large number of countries, and have been trained in various disciplines within the social and natural sciences, and humanities.

By this procedure, the KLI intends to generate new conceptual advances and research initiatives in the bio-sciences, which, due to their interdisciplinary nature, are attractive to a wide variety of scientists from almost all fields of biology and related disciplines.