Jonathan David Farley is currently a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in the Institute for Algebra. Farley has been a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He is the 2004 recipient of the Harvard Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award, a medal presented on behalf of the president of Harvard University in recognition of “outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics.” The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts (home to both Harvard University and MIT) officially declared March 19, 2004 to be “Dr. Jonathan David Farley Day.” In 2005, he published the solution to a mathematics problem posed by MIT professor Richard Stanley that had remained unsolved since 1981. Farley is co-founder of Phoenix Mathematics, Inc., a company that develops mathematical approaches to homeland security. Seed Magazine named Dr. Farley one of “15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.”

Farley obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University in 1995, after winning Oxford’s highest mathematics awards, the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize, in 1994. Farley graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 with the second-highest grade point average in his graduating class.

• Dorkbot - Doing “Strange Things with Electricity” from New York to Linz (April 9, 2009)
• Kurt Gödel: What is Truth? The Strange Story of the Man Who Walked with Einstein (June 29, 2006)
• Terror and Beauty - The European Institute for Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism (September 20, 2005)

Rick Fedrizzi, founding chairman of the US Green Building Council (USGBC), was appointed president & CEO of USGBC in April 2004.

Since he joined the Council, USGBC has launched two new rating systems, LEED for Existing Buildings and LEED for Commercial Interiors; commenced work on LEED Version 3; upgraded and increased its educational offerings; doubled in staff size; and welcomed nearly 3,000 new members, including a new category for professional and trade associations, to the USGBC community. Prior to his appointment, he was the founder and president of Green-Think, an environmentally focused marketing and communications consulting firm. Rick founded Green-Think after a distinguished 25-year career at United Technologies Corporation (UTC), where he served as an in-house environmental marketing consultant. He is also the past president of the World Green Building Council (1999-2004), headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and has worked closely with the Chinese government to develop a framework for the creation of a Chinese Green Building Council.

Fedrizzi holds a bachelor of science in accounting from LeMoyne College and a master's degree in business administration from Syracuse University.

• The US Green Building Council: Transforming an Industry with LEED, (September, 2006)

Astrid M. Fellner is chair of North American studies at Saarland University where she teaches US American and Canadian literatures, American cultural studies, gender studies, and body studies. She is also associate professor of American studies at the University of Vienna.

In 2008–2009 she held the Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair at the Forum on Contemporary Europe at Stanford University and also served as visiting professor of comparative literature. In 2008 she was appointed adjunct professor at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. With Tim Conley (Bradley University, IL) and Klaus Heissenberger (University of Vienna), Fellner is organizing the collaborative student exchange “Transatlantic Dialogues: American/Cultural Studies as a Transnational Project .” As the recipient of an Erwin-Schroedinger Fellowship, she spent two years at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2003–2005). In 1997 Fellner was a visiting researcher at the University of California at Irvine, and in 1990 she was a Fulbright student at the University of Texas at Austin.

Fellner holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. Her postdoctoral degree (Habilitation, University of Vienna) is in “American Studies.”

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

Katja Fiala is the Manager of the Austrian Genome Research Program GEN-AU of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

• GEN-AU – The Austrian Genome Research Program (April 20, 2004)

Dora Fitzli has been Counselor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, DC since February 2005.

Prior to that, she held the position of Scientific Coordinator for the ETH Domain in the State Secretariat for Education and Research in Bern, Switzerland, from August 2001 to January 2005. She also worked as scientific assistant at the Collegium Helveticum of ETH Zurich, where she led a research project investigating the motivation of scientists to engage in dialog with the public.

Fitzli holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Zurich, and a master’s degree in biochemistry from ETH Zurich.

• Switzerland: The Stem Cell Research Act (July 13, 2005)

Eva Flicker is associate professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

As a scholar she focuses on sociology of film and mass media, sociology of communication, group dynamics, organizational research, and gender studies. Within her research focus on gender, Dr. Flicker has examined the Austrian reality TV show “Taxi Orange” for her latest book, published in 2001. In her most recent publication, she takes a close look at aspects of masculinity in the Austrian reality television sequel “Expedition Österreich.” She has served as an appointed representative on the university’s board for equal opportunity for women since 1999 and has extensive teaching experience in her fields of research.

Flicker has earned both her master’s degree in sociology and communication sciences and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Vienna.

• Representation of Women Scientists in Feature Films: 1929 to 2003 (April 14, 2005)

Reinhard Folk is a senior associate professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz.

From 1993, he was a member, and from 1999 to 2003 the chairman of the “Federal Conference of Non-Professorial Academic Staff of Austria’s Universities” (Bundeskonferenz des wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Personals der österreichischen Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen”, BUKO), that was closed by UG2002 on December 31, 2003.

Folk holds a doctoral degree in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna.

• The University Act of 2002: Teaching and Researching in an ‘Enterprise University’ (July 13, 2005)

Richard Foust has completed his two-year term as a program officer in the Division of Chemistry at NSF in August 2006.

He has been on detail to NSF from Northern Arizona University where he serves as professor of chemistry and environmental sciences.

Foust received his B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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

Alison Frank is assistant professor of history at Harvard University.

She is interested in transnational approaches to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, in particular the Habsburg Empire and its successor states (including Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Republic of Austria) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), traces the political, social, cultural, and environmental history of oil production in the Habsburg Empire.Before joining Harvard's faculty, Frank was assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently working on three new projects. The first is an article on Standard Oil's unsuccessful attempt to dominate the Austrian refining industry in the early twentieth century. The second is an environmental history of the Alps, in which she argues that fresh mountain air was commodified over the course of the nineteenth century. The third is a book on Austria-Hungary's Adriatic coastline (between Trieste, Fiume/Rijeka, and Pola/Pula), exploring the intersection between intellectual and cultural trends, social movements, economic development, and environmental change.

Frank received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001.

• Galician California, Galician Hell: The Peril and Promise of Oil Production in Austria-Hungary (June 29, 2006)

Paulus Freisinger is managing director and owner of Freisinger Fensterbau GmbH in Ebbs (Tyrol, Austria).

In addition to this position, he is an engaged exponent of passive house construction methods. He is on the board of the Tyrol Passive House Interest Group and the Interessengemeinschaft Passivhaus Österreich (Austrian Passive House Interest Group), the board of OPTIWIN Group, and Chairman of the supervisory board of OPTIWIN GmbH as well as being a member of the Passive House Circle Rosenheim-Traunstein (Germany). In recognition of his outstanding achievement, he was awarded the Austrian Research Promotion Prize 1998 and, in 1999, the Tyrolean Innovations Prize.

After matriculating and passing his master joiner exam, Freisinger studied at the Technical University in Rosenheim (Bavaria, Germany) in the renowned wood engineering faculty where he graduated as an engineer.

• Innovation and Tradition: Freisinger Windows from the Tyrol to the World, (Septembe, 2006)

As of November 2006, Norbert Frischauf works as managing director at QASAR Technologie(s), a new found high-tech venture in Vienna, Austria.

His activities are centred on representing the company to the outside world, deciding on the company strategy and conducting the scientific experiments related to the Alfvén wave innovations. Frischauf is also a board member of the Austrian Space Forum and actively involved in the work of the United Nations Space Generation Advisory Council, the International Lunar Explorers Society and numerous science and technology outreach activities.Being highly interested in all sorts of technologies, as well as the micro and macro cosmos, his educational and vocational career led him to several distinct places. First to CERN in Switzerland, where he conducted his diploma thesis while collaborating in the development and operation of two detector experiments at the LEP Collider. Then to the International Space University, where he participated in the 1997 Summer Session Program in Houston, Texas and last but not least to ESA/ESTEC in the Netherlands. Going to ESA In 1998, he joined the project team of the ATV, a high-tech automated supply vehicle for the ISS, built and operated by ESA. When Aurora, the Solar System Exploration Initiative of ESA, culminating in a proposed manned landing on Mars around 2030, started to take shape, he supported this endeavor as a Future Studies Systems Engineer, providing technical expertise for advanced (nuclear) propulsion and power systems and coordinating the agency’s effort in the development of the 30-year long-term strategy to achieve these ambitious goals.

Frischauf is a High Energy Physicist (Astrophysics and Particle Physics) by education and a Future Studies Systems Engineer by training.

• Doomsday Machine Large Hadron Collider? (October 16, 2008)
• Austria joins the European Southern Observatory – ad Astra per Aspera (June 30, 2008)
• Galileo and GMES: Europe's symbols of Independence in Space (June 29, 2006)
• Intensifying the Cooperation between ESA and NASA: a Win-Win Strategy? (April 19, 2006)
• Conference Report: Space and Security (July 20, 2004)

Daniela Frischer joined the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) in 2006. Her main tasks are WWTF’s activities within the EU project “INNO-DEAL” as well as program management of ongoing funding activities.

During her studies, she acquired the requisite experience at two PR agencies and during part-time work for WWTF and the Platform for Research and Technology Evaluation Austria.

Frischer studied journalism and communications, political science, and French at the University of Vienna and at l’Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

• Funding Promising Young Scientists in Vienna,Austria- the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) (July 17, 2009)

Harold Furchtgott-Roth is president of Furchtgott-Roth Economic Enterprises.

From 2001-2003, Furchtgott-Roth was a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. From 1997 through 2001, he served as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Before his appointment to the FCC, he was chief economist for the House Committee on Commerce and a principal staff member on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Earlier in his career, he was a senior economist with Economists Incorporated and a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses. Furchtgott-Roth is a member of the Washington Legal Foundation's Legal Policy Advisory Board. He is the coauthor of three books: Cable TV: Regulation or Competition, with R.W. Crandall, The Brookings Institution, 1996; Economics of A Disaster: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, with B.M. Owen et al, Quorum Books, 1995; and International Trade in Computer Software, with S.E. Siwek, Quorum Books, 1993.

• The War of Network Neutrality (April 16, 2007)