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Barbara Oakley
Associate Professor of Engineering
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan
oakley(at)oakland.edu
Barbara Oakley is currently an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University and recently served as vice president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – the world’s largest bioengineering society.
Her research and teaching interests are in the area of bioelectronics, medical sensors and instrumentation, and the effects of electromagnetic fields on biological cells. An award-winning teacher with a witty way in the classroom, she is also the author of Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler (WSU Press, 1996), Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend (Prometheus Press, 2007), and a co-editor of Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Springer, 2008).
Oakley earned a B.A. in Slavic languages and literature in 1976 from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the same institution in 1986. She earned an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. in systems engineering in 1998, both from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
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Maria Oberhofer
Student
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
Maria Oberhofer is a student at Innsbruck University and former intern at the Office of Science & Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC.
She has been studying translation and interpreting of English and Russian at the University of Innsbruck since 2005. Within her program of studies, she attended the summer school at Kursk University and studied for one semester at Yakutsk State University.
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Werner Olipitz
Postdoctoral Researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Werner Olipitz is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA.
His research focuses on identifying mechanisms that predispose people to cancer and developing strategies to intervene in cancer formation.
Olipitz has been a member of the network Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) since 2005 and he currently serves as vice-president of ASciNA. He leads the ASciNA Mentoring project team and is the head of the ASciNA Greater Boston chapter.
Olipitz received his M.D. from the Medical University of Graz and was a resident in Internal Medicine, specializing in Hematology prior to joining MIT.
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Michael Obersteiner
Principal Investigator of INSEA
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Laxenburg, Austria
Michael Obersteiner is currently working in the Forestry Program of the IIASA where he is the principle investigator and scientific coordinator of the INSEA project. In addition to that he is a Research Economist with the Department of Economics and Finance at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria.
He joined the Forestry Program in 1993 as a Guest Research Assistant. Since 2002 he has been a Research Scholar dealing with multiple research topics, including information technology and structural change of the global forest sector and carbon analysis complying with the Kyoto Protocol. Before going to IIASA, he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Economics and Industrial Organization, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, and he was a Fullbright Research Assistant at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
Obersteiner received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Forestry, at the University of Agriculture and Forestry in Vienna, Austria.
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