Margit Haas has been leading the Austrian NANO Initiative since 2005, and in addition is affiliated with several EU-funded ERANET projects responsible for positioning the interests of Austrian stakeholders in the field of micro- and nanotechnology, photonics, and optical technologies.

Before her appointment as leading manager, Margit Haas had worked since 2003 in the program management of the NANO Initiative. She was also the national contact point for several EU funding schemes in the field of environment and sustainable development, especially for the EU-RTD Framework Programs and for EUREKA. Furthermore, she was in charge of international networking activities and technology transfer in international companies, and was leader of the PR- and marketing department of Vienna’s high tech Science and Technology Park, Tech Gate Vienna.

She has a Ph.D. in the natural sciences, petrology, and is further specialized in micro- and nanoanalytical investigations in the natural sciences.

• The Austrian NANO Initiative - Small Country with Strong Expertise (July 12, 2007)

Roland Haas is one of the co-founders of IMARAA and the association's president. He has been the spokesperson of the Research Net Man & Music.

Before he presided over the University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria, from July 2000 through December 2005, he was the cultural manager of the city of Stuttgart, Germany, directed several festivals, and worked as dramatic advisor and editor at theaters in Mannheim, Ulm, Freiburg, and Stuttgart.

Roland Haas is one of the organizers of the Mozart & Science congress 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and literature from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

• The Impact of Music - Austrian Scientists Advance in the Mapping of the Music Code (June 29, 2006)

Dr. Helmut Haberl is the deputy head of the Institute of Social Ecology and adjunct professor at the University of Klagenfurt.

Haberl works on both theoretical and empirical aspects of society-nature interrelations and sustainable development. In recent years, he has led several research projects on the relationship between socioeconomic metabolism and land-use change. His research interests include the human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), ecological footprinting, societal energy metabolism and its relation to sustainable development, and other aspects of societal energy use; e.g., the optimization of climate protection strategies. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA), member of Forum nachhaltiges Österreich (Sustainable Austria Forum), on the Advisory Board for the Austrian government on sustainability issues, member of the Research Council of the University of Klagenfurt, and director of the master's degree course "Social and Human Ecology" at the Institute of Social Ecology.

Haberl did his postdoctoral work in human ecology and holds a master's in biology and a doctorate of ecology from the University of Vienna.

• Measuring the Global Human Impact on Terrestrial Ecosystems - the HANPP Approach (September 28, 2007)

Katharina Harlander is marketing  manager of Vogelbusch's biocommodities division. Vogelbusch provides bioprocess engineering, consultancy and contracting services for the biotechnology industry.

• Vogelbusch: The Bioprocess Company (April 28, 2008)

Elisabeth Hartlieb is working as a sales and marketing assistant responsible for Schindler GmbH in Austria.

Working, studying and traveling, she spent a couple of years abroad in countries like Italy, Taiwan, USA and Germany. Elisabeth’s various internships included a 3 month stay at the OST in spring 2007.

Elisabeth holds a master’s degree from the Innsbruck University School of Management in Austria. During her studies she was also a member of the Executive Board of AIESEC in Innsbruck, a student-run, non-profit organization.

• Introducing Karolin Luger– Finding Her Way through Chromatin (July 12, 2007)
• How to Master Your Future – MBA and MSc Programs at the Vienna University of Technology (July 12, 2007)

Tanja Haser worked with the Office of Science & Technology in Washington, D.C. as a Junior Visiting Expert from January 2005 through March 2005. After spending two years studying interpretation & translating with a special focus on the English and Croatian languages at the University of Vienna, Ms. Haser returned to Carinthia in 2003 where she began her public relations & media communication studies at the University of Klagenfurt. She will finish with a master’s degree in 2007. In addition to her studies, Ms. Haser has gained professional experience in tourism and event management industries in Austria and Croatia.

• Books & Reports on Ethical and Environmental Issues (April 14, 2005)
• International Public Transportation Exposition in Texas, September 26-28, 2005 (April 14, 2005)
• Union of Concerned Scientists (April 14, 2005)

Mohamed H.A. Hassan is president of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and executive director of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world. He also heads the secretariats of the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) and InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP) and serves on a number of committees with other organizations worldwide.

Mohamed H.A. Hassan is a former professor and dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He received the order of scientific merit of Brazil and the order of merit of Italy. He is a fellow of TWAS, AAS, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Islamic World Academy of Sciences; honorary member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences and the Palestine Academy of Science and Technology; corresponding member of the Belgian Royal Overseas Academy of Sciences; and foreign fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.

Mr. Hassan holds a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of Oxford, UK (1974). His research areas include theoretical plasma physics, physics of wind erosion and sand transport.

• Science in Africa: Getting There Slowly (September 20, 2005)

Petr Havlik has worked as a research scholar in the Forestry Program at IIASA since 2007.

Before joining IIASA, Dr. Havlík worked briefly as a postdoc at INRA Grignon (France), where he set up a spatially explicit optimization model for the design of biodiversity compatible landscape pattern policies. His current research focuses on development of forest and agricultural sector optimization models at the European and global level, and on their application to land competition and related resource management issues.

Petr Havlik received his Ph.D. in economics from the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic, and the University of Montpellier 1, France, in 2006.

• The Silent Tsunami: Linking the Global Food Crisis to Deforestation and Biofuels? (April 28, 2008)

Alan Hecht is Director for Sustainable Development, Office of Research and Development, at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He was Associate Director for Sustainable Development at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (2002–2003) and Director of International Environmental Affairs for the National Security Council (2001–2002). He served as the White House coordinator for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Dr. Hecht was the Deputy Assistant Administrator for International Activities at the EPA (1989–2001). Twice he received EPA's highest award, the Gold Medal, for leading U.S. negotiations for the environmental side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement and for his innovative work on promoting nuclear waste management in Russia. He has recently published articles on sustainable development in Environmental Forum (2003) and Water Policy (2004).

He earned a Ph.D. degree at Case Western Reserve University.

• The Next Level of Environmental Protection: Business Strategies and Government Policies Converging on Sustainability (April 28, 2008)
• Sustainability at EPA: Past, Present, and Future (April 16, 2007)
• Sustainability at EPA: A New Research Focus and Initiatives for Better Environmental Decisions (December 7, 2004)

Christian Hederer has been an economist at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor since 2004, spending July-September 2006 at the OST as a visiting expert. His main field is European economic policy, with an emphasis on the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Development, research and innovation policy, and labor market policy. Before coming to the Ministry, Christian was a research and teaching assistant for economics at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, for three years. He continues to be active in both teaching and research, focusing on the economic analysis of institutions, evolutionary economics, political economy, and social inequality. His Ph.D. dissertation project on political entrepreneurship is ongoing.

Christian holds master's degrees in both law and economics from the University of Vienna and attended two years of graduate level courses in economics at the University of California at Berkeley and the Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna.

• Introducing Günter Wagner: Evolution as a Creative Intellectual Endeavor (September, 2006)
• Helga Kromp-Kolb: When Science Goes Public (September, 2006)
• Re$earch Re$ources: Life Sciences Austria (LISA) (September, 2006)
• An Interview with Hubert Christian Ehalt: Science Policy Report of the City of Vienna (September, 2006)

Sabine Herlitschka is currently Director of the European and International Programmes Division at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency. Her responsibilities and tasks comprise a broad spectrum of services in order to strengthen the Austrian participation in competitive European and International research & technology programmes. She is involved in various European Commission Committees and expert groups related to research & technology, served as expert evaluator for the European Commission, and has initiated & coordinated several major EU initiatives.

Previous positions include her activities as Vice-Rector for Research Management and International Cooperation at the newly founded Medical University of Graz, for which she received the Austrian Higher Education Management Prize 2007. Furthermore, she did an Internship at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in cooperation with the Science Advisor in the U.S. Department of State. Before she took over the tasks as Deputy Director of the Bureau for International Research and Technology Cooperation (BIT) in Vienna she worked as researcher in an international Pharma & Biotech company.

Sabine Herlitschka holds a Ph.D. in Food- and Biotechnology with specialization in molecular biology and genetic engineering. She did her studies at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna and holds an MBA in General Management.

• Medical Competence Network Southeast: A New Initiative Fostering Cooperation in Science and Technology in Southeast Europe (October 5, 2004)
• New Medical Universities in Austria – The Youngest Universities in Europe (July 20, 2004)

Christopher T. Hill has been professor of public policy and technology in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University since 1994.

After formal education and experience in engineering, Dr. Hill spent more than three decades in practice, research, teaching, and consulting in science and technology policy, focusing on the history, design, evaluation, and politics of federal policies to stimulate commercial technological innovation. From 1997 to 2005, he was vice provost for research at Mason. He was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2005-2006. Earlier, he worked with RAND, the National Academies, the Congressional Research Service, MIT, the Office of Technology Assessment, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Uniroyal Corporation. As a principal in Technology Policy International, he has consulted extensively with Japanese government agencies regarding industrial competitiveness and reform of R&D funding and higher education systems.

He has a B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, all in chemical engineering.

• The Post-Scientific Society (December, 2007)

Helmut Hojesky has been head of the Department for Air, Soil and Climate Change in the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family Affairs since 1993.

He is in charge of national, EU, and international air quality and climate change policy in Austria (working on legal as well as technical issues), and is responsible for introducing the EU Emissions Trading System in Austria. Helmut Hojesky chaired the EU climate change Council Working Group during the Austrian EU Presidency in 1998, and has led the Austrian Delegation during several meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Helmut is a graduate of the University of Vienna with a post-graduate degree in meteorology.

• Some Like it Hot: Differing Approaches to Climate Change (July 13, 2005)

Mande Holford is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/National Science Foundation (NSF) Science, Technology & Engineering Policy Fellow in the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).

In the fall of 2004 she joined OISE, where she applies her scientific expertise to the development and execution of NSF granting programs in the Nordic and Americas regions, negotiating Science & Technology agreements with countries in these regions. Prior to joining OISE, Mande was manager of the High School Science Research Program at the American Museum of Natural History.

Mande Holford received her B.S. in mathematics and chemistry from York College of the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in synthetic protein synthesis from The Rockefeller University.

• International Activities and the US National Science Foundation (July 13, 2005)

Herbert Hrachovec is currently deputy chairman of the Department of Philosophy and head of the committee for curricular development at the University of Vienna.

He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, and held scholarships and visiting appointments at the universities of Oxford (UK), Münster (FGR), Harvard University (US), Berlin, Essen und Weimar (all FRG), Bergen (NO) as well as Klagenfurt (A). In 2001 and 2002, he received awards for innovative teaching at the University of Vienna.

He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Vienna.

• Pushing the Reset Button (July 13, 2005)

Robert Huber is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he has been teaching since 1998.

Prior to his current position, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and assistant professor at the University of Graz. Prof. Huber gained research experience in the fields of ethology, neuroethology, physiology, biochemistry, and comparative neuroanatomy. He was recently awarded a Research Grant by the National Institutes of Health for the study of "Ethopharmacological Characterization of Reward Systems in Crayfish."

Robert Huber holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Texas Tech University and a master's degree in zoology from the University of Salzburg. While working on his master's thesis, he was advised by Prof. Konrad Z. Lorenz. Additionally, he received his habilitation from the University of Graz, Austria

• Sources & sinks: Scientific Trajectories and the Austrian Brain Drain (June 29, 2006)

Prof. Sigismund Huck is Deputy Director of the Brain Research Institute, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Medical University Vienna.

Prof. Huck worked at NY University in New York (on a Max Kade Fellowship), the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, and as a Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University, NY. In addition, he was President of the Austrian Neuroscience Association, Chairman of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Schools and member of the FENS Executive Council. Prof. Huck is currently Secretary of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Schools of Neuroscience.

• Austrian Scientists Speak Up: Zukunft kann man sich nicht ersparen (July 20, 2004)

Heidemarie Hurtl joined the IMP in 1993 and has been handling the institute’s public affairs since then. Currently, she is also responsible for media relations at IMBA, the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Prior to this assignment, she worked as a consultant for an Austrian aerospace company and as a freelance science writer.

Ms. Hurtl pursued university studies in medicine and biology. She holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Vienna.

• 20 Years of Life Science Research at the IMP (July 1, 2008)

Alexander Hölbl is working in the Division of Vocational Education and Training of the Ministry of Economics and Labor in Vienna.

Previously, he worked for nine months in different Austrian courts (the so-called “court-year”) and was posted for nearly five years in an Austrian lawyers office, specializing in business law. From April to June 2007 he served in the OST as a stagiaire.

Alexander Hölbl holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Vienna, and completed additional studies in canon law in 2007.

• Nanotechnology: Exploring the fashion of thinking small (July 12, 2007)
• The US Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies: an Interview with Julia Moore (July 12, 2007)
• The Austrian Wirtschaftsservice (July 12, 2007)

Sigurd Höllinger is Director General for Higher Education at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (BMBWK). He is the author of numerous publications in the field of education and science policy.

He wrote his habilitation on the sociology of education while attending the University of Graz in 1983. Sigurd Höllinger pursued university studies in physics, ethnology and sociology. He holds a Dr. phil. in sociology from the University of Vienna.

• The Most Sweeping University Reform in 150 Years (July 13, 2005)

Ulrich Hörmann is the secretary-general of the Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD).

He has been in this position since the year 2000, after ten years of service at ÖAD, first as head of the Department of Development Cooperation and then as deputy secretary-general.

Ulrich Hörmann has studied social and economic sciences as well as Catholic theology. In his master’s thesis, he specialized in the issue of non-tariff trade barriers between the USA, Europe, and Japan.

• Presentation of the Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD) (July 1, 2008)