Irene Eckart is currently in training to become a lawyer while living in Vienna.

She first worked as an intern at the Office of Science & Technology from July through September 2003 and joined the OST again from January through July 2006 as a member of the editorial staff of bridges.

Eckart holds a Master's degree in Law from the University of Vienna and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management, Business & Administration from New College in Durham, England, and attended the European Management Academy in Vienna, Austria.

• The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) - from Research to Therapies (September 28, 2006)
• From Unilateralism to Multi-stakeholder - a Change of Paradigm in Internet Governance? (September 28, 2006)
• Re$earch Re$ources - The OeNB Jubiläumsfonds (Anniversary Fund) for the Promotion of Scientific Research and Teaching (June 29, 2006)
• Science at the Poles - Research As Cool As It Gets (June 29, 2006)
• Science That Serves Society: The Cooperation Center for Disaster Management and Security in Buildings (April 19, 2006)
• CORDIS Austria: Welcome to the Austrian EU Presidency R&D and Innovation Information Service (April 19, 2006)

Stefan Eichberger is program manager of "brainpower Austria," a program of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

Prior to the FFG, he worked at the Office of Science & Technology in Washington, DC, was a research associate at the Institute of Digital Image Processing at Joanneum Research in Graz, Austria, and at Austrian Mobility Research (FGM), also in Graz.

Eichberger holds a master's degree in environmental science and another master's degree in space sciences, both from the University of Graz.

• Review of the Austrian Science Talks 2007 (December 2007)
• "Excellent Research - The Principle of Elite" Austrian Science Talks 2007 in the US (September 28, 2007)
• Technology Transfer—The Wheels Keep on Turning (December 7, 2004)

Hans-Georg Eichler has been professor of clinical pharmacology at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria since 1992. In 2003, he assumed the position of vice-rector for Research and International Relations at the university.

He received his clinical training at the Vienna University Hospital, the Poison Control Center in Austria, and the Clinique du Creusot, in Le Creusot, France. He gained experience in research most recently as a visiting professor at Outcomes Research, World Headquarters, Merck & Co., Inc., at Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Prior to that, his research took him to several renowned institutions in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and South Africa. He is a member of several medical advisory boards at the Austrian Ministry of Health. Since 2000, he has been president of the Vienna School of Clinical Research.

Eichler holds a master of science in toxicology from the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK and an M.D. from the Vienna University Medical School, Austria.

• The New Medical University of Vienna (April 14, 2005)

Arthur B. Ellis has completed his four-year term as director of the Division of Chemistry at NSF in June, 2006.

He has been on detail to NSF from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he serves as Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry. Ellis received a Director's Meritorious Service Award from NSF in 2004.

Ellis received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner is co-founder of the initiative doktorat.at and a member of the council of Eurodoc, the European federation for young researchers, since 2004.

In the first half of 2007, he worked as a trainee at the Council of the European Union in research and industry policy.

Eppenschwandtner has a Ph.D. in mathematics (Vienna University of Technology); his research field is at the intersection of category theory and set theory.

• Giving Young Researchers Their Due: PhD Candidates in Austria Build a New Platform, (September, 2006)

Since 2006, Armin Erger works for the "Zukunftszentrum Tirol" (Center for Future Studies Tirol) as a project manager for economic and work research.

Currently, Armin Erger works on his Ph.D. in the field of energy security policy. His first book, Futurismus im Pentagon? Neue Kriegsformen im 21. Jahrhundert was published in Fall 2005 by Braumüller Verlag, Vienna, Austria. In 2006 he was awarded the Fulbright Prize for American Studies for his thesis "Revolution in military affairs : Mode of Warfare, Transformation and U.S.-american Debate." His main interests are the social theory of war and American defense policy.

Armin Erger studied economics at the University of Innsbruck.

• Yoda and the Jedis: the Revolution in Military Affairs and the Transformation of War (September 20, 2005)

Peter Ertl is currently a senior scientist at the Nano-System-Technologies division of the Austrian Research Centers (ARC).

His research group is developing lab-on-a-chip systems for cell analysis. A particular focus of his research is the investigation of health effects of nanoparticles on living cell populations. In 2003 he successfully cofounded a biotech start-up company named Rapid Laboratory Microsystems, Inc. (www.rapidlabs.com ) in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. RapidLabs was founded to commercialize the technology invented by Dr. Mikkelsen and Dr. Ertl at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Ertl conducted his undergraduate studies at the University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources (BOKU, Vienna, Austria) in the field of food sciences and biotechnology. In 1997 he entered a Ph.D. program in chemistry at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His Ph.D. dissertation involved the development of an electrochemical biosensor for the rapid identification of microorganisms. After the completion of his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in collaboration with Clinical Microsensors Inc. (Pasadena, California) on a DNA-biosensor. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley where he developed novel microfluidic systems (µ-TAS).

• Austrian NANO Initiative: Impressions and Experiences from Scientists (July 12, 2007)
• Reverse Culture Shock: Personal Experiences told by an Austrian Scientist Returning from North America (June 29, 2006)