Ilona F. Aberl works for the Montgomery County Fire/Rescue Service as the Office Services Coordinator for the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department in Silver Spring, MD.

She was formerly the Office Manager for the OST from January 2003 through December 2006. In her free time, she serves as a volunteer EMT-B and Treasurer for the Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Department in Olney, MD since 1999.

Ilona holds B.A. degrees in British and American Literature and German Language and Literature from the University of Maryland.

• Meet IIASA - A Global Effort Based in Austria (April 14, 2005)
• Running the EU Presidency: Opportunity Does Knock Twice for the Netherlands (April 14, 2005)

Pepita Adelmann studies communication sciences and French at the University of Vienna, Austria.

She gained international experience while living in England and has completed a series of internships in the field of PR and advertising.

Pepita Adelmann was working as an intern at the OST from January to March 2008.

• Introducing Walter Munk, or "The Old Man and the Sea" (April 28, 2008)

Caroline Adenberger has been a team member of the OST since July 2004; since January 2005 she has been working as editor for bridges.

She holds a master's degree in law from the University of Vienna, Austria. During her studies, she participated in various programs that have taken her to the Brookes University in Oxford (GB) and the Université de Fribourg (CH). The main focus of her legal studies was commercial law.

Besides her studies, she gained experience as a law clerk in Vienna and consulted for companies in Austria and Switzerland in the areas of public relations and event management.

• Letter from the Editor (July 1, 2008)
• NAFSA: Association of International Educators (July 1, 2008)
• Letter from the Editor (April 28, 2008)
• People in the Spotlight: Johannes Hahn, Austrian Minister for Science & Research (April 28, 2008)
• The Austrian Biofuels Institute- Competence Center for Liquid Biofuels (April 28, 2008)
• Letter from the Editor (December 17, 2007)
• The fFORTE Initiative - Austria's Strong Point for Women in Science and Technology (December 17, 2007)
• Letter from the Editor (September 28, 2007)
• A Tireless Advocate for Science - an Interview with the Former House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (September 28, 2007)
• Letter from the Editor (July 12, 2007)
• The Institute of Science & Technology Austria: an Interview with Scientific Director Olaf Kübler (July 12, 2007)
• Letter from the Editor (April 16, 2007)
• A(u)stronauts Are Taking the Lead on Manned Mission to Mars (September 28, 2006)
• The New State-of-the-Art Stem Cell Research Facility at UC Davis: an Interview with Austrian Lab Director Gerhard Bauer (September 28, 2006)
• Introducing Guenter Riegler: Reaching for the Stars During 40 Years with NASA (June 29, 2006)
• People in the Spotlight: Martin Bartenstein - Austrian Federal Minister of Economics and Labour (June 29, 2006)
• The Jefferson Science Fellowship Program: Integrating Science Into Diplomacy (June 29, 2006)
• The Max F. Perutz Laboratories - or How to Make a Successful Research Unit and the World a More Exciting Place (April 19, 2006)
• Introducing Brigitte Servatius: There’s No Such Thing as Can’t (December 6, 2005)
• “math.space” in Vienna – Where Numbers Come Alive (September 20, 2005)
• Introducing Gitta Honegger, Professor of Theater: An Austrian in the Desert of Arizona (September 20, 2005)
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research Policies: Focus Europe (July 13, 2005)
• IAP - The Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology (July 13, 2005)
• Introducing Lukas Pezawas: Pioneering Research with “Imaging Genetics” on Genetic Factors in Depression (July 13, 2005)
• ASciNA 2005 “Mind Matters – Austrian Ingenuity Abroad” Conference in Vienna, April 27-29, 2005 (April 14, 2005)
• Astrid Schnetzer: Doing Research With “Alvin” – 5000 Feet Beneath the Ocean’s Surface (April 14, 2005)
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research Policy: the Continuing Controversy in the U.S. and its Consequences (April 14, 2005)
• A Collection of Contributions to Culture, Knowledge and Curiosity (December 7, 2004)
• Living in the Technological Age: The Public Understanding of Science (December 7, 2004)
• The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Austria: Building a Center of Excellence in the Heart of Europe (December 7, 2004)
• From Balancing Acts in Education to The Nuclear Tipping Point (October 5, 2004)
• Sabine Frühstück, the Story of an Austrian Japanologist, or: How to Get into the Japanese Military as an Austrian Woman (October 5, 2004)
• From Climate Change on Earth to Moon, Mars and Beyond …. (July 20, 2004)
• Introducing Andrea Oberhuber: An Austrian’s New Sound of Music in French Canada (July 20, 2004)

Charlotte Alber is a project officer for brainpower austria (bpa) at the Bureau for International Research and Technology Cooperation (BIT). Ms Alber studied Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

During her studies she worked for Austrian Lotteries and for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF). While working as a project officer at the Department of Marketing at the University of Vienna, Ms Alber participated in the development and implementation of an EU-funded business and marketing concept for an international internet marketplace. Subsequently, Ms Alber managed the online service "Schreiber.link" at the department for New Technologies at the Austrian Postal Service, Post AG. Ms Alber has extensive teaching experience in the fields of marketing and E-commerce. She has taught at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and at IMC Krems.

• Brainpower Austria - Sailing against the prevailing winds (April 20, 2004)

Since 1984 Rudolf Albrecht has occupied various positions (data analysis group leader, deputy head, and later head/ST-ECF, now senior scientist) at the ESA/ESO Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility in Garching, Germany.

From 1972 to 1981, he was assistant professor at the Institute for Astronomy in Vienna. During this period Albrecht worked with numerous international collaborations, among them at ESO (Chile), Cerro Tololo (Chile), Mauna Kea (Hawaii, US), and DTM (Washington, DC, US).

From 1976 to 1993, Albrecht was a member of the Investigation Definition Teams for the Faint Object Camera (the ESA contribution to the Hubble Space Telescope). He also headed Scientific Data Processing at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland (1981–1984).

Albrecht holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and physics from the University of Vienna, Austria. In 1970–1971 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

• Austria joins the European Southern Observatory – ad Astra per Aspera (July 1, 2008)

Philip G. Altbach is Monan Professor of Higher Education and director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College.

He is the author of Comparative Higher Education, co-editor of American Higher Education in the 21st Century, editor of The Decline of the Guru and other books. He has also been the editor of the Review of Higher Education.

Philip Altbach has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and was the 2005-2006 Distinguished Scholar Leader of the Fulbright New Century Scholars program.

Philip Altbach holds a B. A., an M. A. and a Ph.D degree from the University of Chicago.

• The Dilemmas of Ranking (December 2006)

For the past 21 years, Mr. Amon has had a distinguished career in engineering and construction. He has a wide range of experience in mechanical design and construction, including semiconductor facilities, pharmaceutical facilities, and other high technology industries. He received his undergraduate degree in structural engineering from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, and went on to earn a Master's degree in engineering and management from Stanford University. In addition, Mr. Amon has been a Registered Mechanical Engineer since 1988. For the past three-and-a-half years, he has been working on a variety of energy efficiency and water conservation projects as the national energy manager for the US Environmental Protection Agency.

• Moving Laboratories into the 21st Century (September 20, 2005)

Vicki Arroyo has been the director of policy analysis for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change since 1998. She also served as managing editor of the Pew Center's book: Climate Change: Science, Strategies, and Solutions. Ms. Arroyo serves on the Editorial Board of the Climate Policy Journal and teaches a course on environmental policy and politics at Catholic University in Washington, DC.

Ms. Arroyo has had over 20 years of experience in the environmental field. Prior to joining the Pew Center, she practiced environmental law with the Washington, DC, office of Kilpatrick Stockton, served in two offices of the US Environmental Protection Agency, was the director of policy analysis for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and worked on emergency response issues for the National Institute for Chemical Studies in Charleston, West Virginia.

Ms. Arroyo holds a bachelor of science in biology, magna cum laude, from Emory University (double major in philosophy); a master's of public administration from Harvard University, and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.

• Advancing an Agenda for Climate Action (April 19, 2006)

Christian Auchter is a student of politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2006, he has been PR and communications management assistant for ICWE GmbH, Berlin, a German-based international conference and event organizer.

• Missing Links: the Future of Learning with Digital Technologies (September 28, 2006)