David F. J. Campbell is a research fellow at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF), University of Klagenfurt (http://www.iff.ac.at/hofo), a lecturer at the University of Vienna, and an associate professorial lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

He co-edited "Demokratiequalität in Österreich: Zustand und Entwicklungsperspektiven" (2002), and his articles have been published in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, and International Journal of Technology Management. His current major research interests focus on the knowledge-based economy and society (R&D, S&T, innovation) and on the assessment of democracy and democratic quality for global comparison.

Campbell completed his studies in 1996 with a dissertation in political science from the University of Vienna.

• University/Business Research Networks: New Challenges for Knowledge Production and Advanced Innovation Systems (April 14, 2005)

Dr. Carlson is a professor at the University of Virginia (UVA), with appointments in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society (School of Engineering and Applied Science) and the History Department (College of Arts and Sciences).

He coordinates the Engineering Business Minor at UVA and teaches a course on “Engineers as Entrepreneurs.” He is an expert on the role of innovation in American history, specifically on how inventors, engineers, and managers used technology between 1875 and 1925 to create new systems and enterprises. His publications include Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1991; paper 2002), as well as Technology in World History, 7 volumes (Oxford University Press, 2005). In 2008, Technology in World History was awarded the Sally Hacker Prize by the Society for the History of Technology. With support from the Sloan Foundation, he has completed a biography of the inventor Nikola Tesla, which will appear in 2012.

Carlson has served on the board of trustees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and is currently serving as the executive secretary for the Society for the History of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 and did postdoctoral work in business history at the Harvard Business School.

• Innovation, Jobs, and Patents: A Historical Perspective on US Patent Reform (July 20, 2011)

Britt Childs is a research analyst in the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute.

Her work primarily focuses on clean technology deployment. She is interested in the regulatory and investment frameworks that facilitate market penetration of low-carbon energy technologies internationally. To date, much of this research has focused on biofuels policy in the US and its implications internationally. In addition to this technology research, she works on energy security, sustainable development, and international climate policy.

Childs holds a bachelor's degree in international politics from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.

• Plants at the Pump: Biofuels, Climate Change, and Sustainability (April 28, 2008)

Ronald L. Christensen is the program officer for Special Projects Office and Experimental Physical Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry at the National Science Foundation. He is also a professor of chemistry at Bowdoin College.

In addition to serving as a program officer in experimental physical chemistry, he has been involved with several NSF programs involving undergraduate research, including Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI), REU, and URC. In 2003 Christensen received the American Chemical Society Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution. He has served as chair of the Department of Chemistry and as associate dean for the sciences at Bowdoin College.

Christensen has an A.B. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard University.

• Undergraduate Research Collaboratives: Turning Undergraduates into Investigators (June 29, 2006)

Michel Claessens is currently deputy head of the Communication Unit in the Research Directorate-General at the European Commission. He joined the European Commission in 1994.

A scientific journalist and writer since 1980, he has published 250 articles and 4 books on several aspects of modern science and technology. He successively carried out research in organic physical chemistry, in radiology, in biotechnology and in the chemical industry. He is teaching science communication at the Free University of Brussels and is a member of the scientific committee of the PCST Network (Public Communication of Science and Technology).

Claessens holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry.

• How Central and Eastern European Countries See Science (April 14, 2005)

Pat Clemins has been the director for the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program since July of 2009.

Previously, he spent two years as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation in the Directorate for Biological Sciences.  In the Division of Biological Infrastructure, he focused on fostering more synergistic and mutually beneficial collaborations between the biological sciences and the computing and engineering research communities and on the use of computing technologies for outreach and community building.

Clemins holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Marquette University, focusing on machine learning and digital signal processing.  His doctoral research involved adapting current speech-processing techniques for the analysis of animal vocalizations, taking into account the different perception processes and abilities of the species under study. 

• The Path to 3% (December 18, 2009)

Alexander "Sascha" Cocron is a strategy consultant and academic lecturer with extensive experience in corporate strategy and entrepreneurial venture development. He was a founding member of two venture-funded high technology start-ups, and partner at Mercer Management Consulting, a leading strategy consultancy.

Cocron has advised senior executives of Global 1000 clients on issues of strategy and mergers and acquisitions in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, and the United States. He has lectured on the topics of entrepreneurship and business strategy at the Kendall School of Business, where he also served as Dean, as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

Cocron holds an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

• The Risk-taking Entrepreneur: Don't Believe the Hype (October 24, 2011)
• Return of the Austrians (April 21, 2010)

In July 2011, William Colglazier has been selected to be the new Science and Technology Adviser to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

He served for 18 years as executive officer of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and as chief operating officer of the National Research Council (NRC), until his retirement  in June 2011.  From 1991 to 1994, he was executive director of the Office of International Affairs of the NRC. From 1983 to 1991, he was professor of physics and director of the Energy, Environment, and Resources Center at the University of Tennessee. He worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard prior to 1983. While at Harvard, Colglazier also served as associate director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Humanism of the Aspen Institute. In 1976-77, he was an AAAS Congressional Science Fellow working for Congressman George Brown. He is past chair of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.

Colglazier received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971.

• Rebuttal to: "Science Academies as Political Advocates" by Roger Pielke, Jr. [published in "bridges" vol. 6] (September 20, 2005)

Timothy Conley, associate professor of English at Bradley University, has served twice as a Fulbright Professor in American literature in the Department of English at the University of Vienna.

With Professor Kurt Mayer, he co-taught a travel course, “Live(s) on the Mississippi,” with students from Vienna and Bradley and, since 2006, has been director of Bradley's Study Abroad Program in Vienna. His publications include studies of Benjamin Franklin, Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, John Bartram, William Faulkner, and the discipline of American Literature. In 2004, he was also Fulbright Professor at the University of Sarajevo. With Professor Astrid Fellner and Mag. Klaus Heissenberger , he developed the Bradley-Vienna model for collaborative study abroad programs.

Conley received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Pennsylvania State University. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Louis University's Honors Program.

• International Educational Exchange - Meeting Ground for Future World Citizens: The Vienna/Bradley Model (October 15, 2009)

Denys Cooper joined the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) in 1973 as an industrial technology advisor. He was appointed a director of the technology transfer element in 1989.

Currently, as a senior advisor, he is studying the growth of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and maintains an interest in the socio-economic impact of university spin-off firms. In 1999, Cooper was appointed director of IRAP Strategic Alliances, with a particular focus on international collaborations with SMEs. He has also worked extensively with the biotechnology sector. In particular, he has tracked their bio finance investments.

Cooper has a Ph.D. in polymer science from the University of Liverpool in the UK.

• University Spin-Offs in Canada: Universities Produce Strong Gazelles (September 20, 2005)

Gary Corbett is the president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) and the chair of the 2nd Science Policy Symposium – Public Science in Canada.

He has over 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors. As an employee of Natural Resources Canada, he worked as a scientist conducting operational research in the coal mining industry in Cape Breton. Relocating his family to Ottawa following the close of the Canadian Cape Breton coal industry in 1998, he focused his attention on policy development as it affects the role of public science in decision making.

Corbett holds a diploma in chemical engineering technology and a bachelor of science from the University of Cape Breton, as well as a master’s degree in mining engineering from McGill University. He is a member of the Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada.

• Letter to the Editor (April 21, 2010)

Katharina Cortolezis-Schlager has been a management consultant since 1983, and a project manager and staff member of numerous important change projects of national and international organizations, both private and public.

She is also a consultant for educational management, change management processes, and quality management in education, science, and research. As the first female head of the Austrian Students Council and founder of the first Austrian summer university for women, she has long-term experience in various developing issues in education and science.

Cortolezis-Schlager studied economics and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

• The Promotion of International Cooperation in Science & Research Must Be the Order of the Day in Austria (July 20, 2011)

John C. Crepeau is associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Idaho, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and performs research in the broad area of thermal-fluid science.

He spent one year at the Humboldt University in Berlin as an NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow and before that worked as an instructor at the University of Utah. Crepeau is the author of several articles in respected science journals and has made presentations at international congresses and conferences. He has been awarded several prizes, among others, the VSJ KODAK Award for Excellent Visualized Image from the Visualization Society of Japan.

Crepeau holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

• From Rags to Research: the Life of Josef Stefan (December 14, 2006)

John Crews is the forensic program manager for the International Resources Group, Washington, D.C. and also serves as the deputy operations director on the contract awarded to support the International Criminal Investigations Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prior to his current work, Crews was DNA laboratory development and operations director for the International Commission on Missing Persons based in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He also worked at MIT searching for genes related to adult onset diabetes, and at George Mason University helping the Federal Bureau of Investigation build a mitochondrial DNA database to support criminal investigations. While at George Mason, he used the mitochondrial DNA of a 500-year old Incan ceremonial sacrifice to discover a contemporary relative living just outside of Washington, DC.

Crews holds a master of science in genetics from George Washington University in Washington, DC, specializing in DNA-based human identification.

• The New Age of Genocide and the Science of Large-Scale Human Identifications (April 14, 2005)