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Ilona Aberl
Ilona Aberl
Office Services Coordinator
Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department
Silver Spring, Maryland 

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 Office of Science & Technology 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.


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


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Pepita Adelmann
Pepita Adelmann
Student
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
adelmann(at)gmail.com

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. She was working as an intern at the Office of Science & Technology from January to March 2008.


Adelmann is working on her B.A. thesis at the University of Vienna.


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Caroline Adenberger
Caroline Adenberger
Editor-in-Chief, bridges
Deputy Director of the Office of Science & Technology (OST)
Embassy of Austria
Washington, D.C.
adenberger(at)ostina.org

Caroline Adenberger joined the OST in July 2004 after graduating from law school; since 2005 she has been working as editor for bridges.

She holds a master's degree in law from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a master's degree in international public policy with a concentration in energy, resources, and environment from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC.

Adenberger participated in academic exchange programs with Brookes University in Oxford (GB) and the Université de Fribourg (CH), and completed a concentration in commercial law. She gained practical courtroom experience as a law clerk in Vienna and consulted for companies in the areas of public relations and communication management during her studies.


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Dipl.-Ing. Heimo Aichmaier
Heimo Aichmaier
Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technologie
Renngasse 5
Vienna, Austria
heimo.aichmaier(at)bmvit.gv.at

Heimo Aichmaier is working at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and is in charge of developing national RTI (research, technology, and innovation) strategies and measures for electric mobility (the electrification of drive trains with alternative propulsion systems) as well as the initiation of bi- and multilateral cooperation. He has long experience in setting-up transnational collaboration activities between national transport technology policies and funding instruments of Austria and various European Member States.


He previously worked at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW), has co-founded the "Austrian Agency for Alternative Propulsion" as a public-private partnership, and was head of department until being assigned to the Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC.


Aichmaier holds a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the Vienna University of Technology - where he specialized in the field of regional development planning and European regional policies. He complemented his studies with courses at the Environmental Impact Assessment Centre (EIA) of the University of Manchester (UK). Furthermore, he has finished the postgraduate management program for executives at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.


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Charlotte Alber
Charlotte Alber
Deputy Head of Division
Structural Programs
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Charlotte Alber is deputy head of division at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The FFG is the national funding institution for applied industrial research in Austria. As expert for promoting the mobility and career development of researchers, Alber has been with the FFG since 2004. She acts as deputy head of the division "Structural Programs" and is in charge of "brainpower austria". Since 2007 she is also acting as group leader for the program family "Human Potential". The group provides supporting and funding services for attracting, retaining and promoting researchers in Austria.


Before joining the FFG, she worked as project manager at the Austrian Post AG and participated in an international EU-funded project at the Department of Marketing at the University of Vienna. Since 2001 she has taught in the fields of marketing (University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration).


Alber studied Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. During her studies she worked for Austrian Lotteries and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF).


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Rudolf Albrecht
Rudolf Albrecht
Senior Scientist
Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
Munich, Germany
ralbrech(at)eso.org
http://www.stecf.org/~ralbrech/para/rudi.html


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, he 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.


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Jeffrey Alexander
Jeffrey Alexander
Senior Science & Technology Policy Analyst
Center for Science, Technology & Economic Development
SRI International
Arlington, Virginia

Jeffrey Alexander is a senior science & technology policy analyst in the Center for Science, Technology & Economic Development at SRI International.


He has over 15 years of experience in conducting in-depth analyses of high-technology markets, tracking and evaluating R&D strategies and policies, and advising on technology investments and program implementation. Alexander is an expert on corporate and government R&D management, science & technology policy, and collaborative innovation networks. He was previously chief knowledge officer at New Economy Strategies, an economic-development consulting firm. He earlier served as vice president & director of research at Washington CORE, which provided technology market research and policy analysis to numerous international clients.


Alexander received a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University, where he completed the honors program in science, technology and society. He holds a Ph.D. in management of science, technology and innovation from The George Washington University. His dissertation studied trends in public-private R&D alliances involving organizations in the US and the European Union.


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Philip G. Altbach
Philip G. Altbach
Monan Professor of Higher Education
Center for International Higher Education
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
altbach(at)bc.edu

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. He 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.


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


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Dorothea Altschul
Dorothea Altschul, MD
Interventional Vascular Neurologist
Ridgewood, NJ
dorothea.altschul(at)gmail.com
http://www.columbianeurosurgery.org/

Dorothea Altschul is a board-certified Interventional Vascular Neurologist. She joined Columbia Neurosurgery at their Ridgewood office location in August 2010.


She completed an Interventional Neuroradiology fellowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. Prior to that she trained in Vascular and Critical Care Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in Boston. She finished her neurology training at Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroepidemiology at the National Institute on Aging (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Her clinical and research interests include minimally-invasive imaging-guided therapies for the treatment of vascular disorders of the brain and spinal cord.


Strozyk received her medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria.

 
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Dan Amon
Dan Amon
National Energy Manager
US Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC
amon.dan(at)epa.gov
+1 202-564-7509

Dan Amon works on a variety of energy efficiency and water conservation projects as the National Energy Manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.


He has led a distinguished career in engineering and construction for more than 20 years. He has a wide range of experience in mechanical design and construction, including semiconductor facilities, pharmaceutical facilities, and other high technology industries.


Amon 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, Amon has been a Registered Mechanical Engineer since 1988.


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Vicki Arroyo
Vicki Arroyo
Director of policy analysis
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Washington, DC

Vicki Arroyo has been the director of policy analysis for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change since 1998.  


She 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, where she represented clients on a variety of air quality, Superfund, and other  environmental issues. She served in two offices of the US Environmental Protection Agency-- overseeing development of air toxics standards in the Office of Air and Radiation from 1987 - 1988, and reviewing development of criteria air pollutant regulations in the Office of Research and Development from 1993 -1994.   In between her two stints at EPA, she served in Louisiana as Environmental Advisor to Governor Buddy Roemer and as Director of Policy Analysis for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (from 1988 - 1991). 


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.


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Philipp Asen
Philipp Asen
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria

Philipp Asen has been studying business administration at the University of Innsbruck since 2005 and is currently writing his diploma thesis, which deals with the impact of cloud computing on small and medium-sized businesses.


The focus of Asen’s studies is business informatics, especially information systems management and enterprise resource planning systems.



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Christian Auchter
Christian Auchter
Public Relations and Communications Assistant
ICWE GmbH
Berlin, Germany

Christian Auchter is a public relations and communications management assistant for ICWE GmbH, Berlin. 


ICWE GmbH is a German-based international conference and event organizer. He has been working with ICWE since 2006.


Auchter is also a student of politics at the Freie Universität Berlin.


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