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Stefan Kalt
Stefan Kalt
Professor
Core Curriculum
Boston University
Boston, Massachusettes

Stefan Kalt is currently a faculty member in the Core Curriculum at Boston University.


He specializes in the history of modern philosophy, especially the thought of David Hume. He also pursues an interest in political philosophy and social thought.


Kalt received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University in 2003.


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Barbara Parish Karn
Barbara Parish Karn
Environmental scientist
US Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC
karn.barbara(at)epa.gov
+1 202-343-9704

Barbara Karn is an environmental scientist at the US EPA Office of Research and Development where she works in nanotechnology and the environment. She also holds the position of nanotechnology scholar in the Program for Science in the Public Interest at Georgetown University.


She spent a year as visiting scientist for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her focus is “Green” nanotechnologies – including using green chemistry, green engineering, and environmentally benign manufacturing to make new nanomaterials and products, or using nanotechnology to prevent pollution in current processes.


Karn holds a Ph.D. from Florida International University in marine ecology with emphasis on the kinetics of nutrient cycling and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Ohio State University.


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Verena Katscher
Verena Katscher
Political Scientist
Vienna, Austria
verena.katscher(at)gmx.at

Verena Katscher studied political science at the University of Vienna, graduating in June 2007.


During her studies, she spent one year at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work experience includes two internships at the Austrian Foundation of Development Aid and at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights. Katscher also worked as an academic assistant on the research project "Development of a Methodology for a Long-term Strategy on the Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS)" for the 3s Research Laboratory. She spent three months as an intern in the Office of Science & Technology from July to September 2007.


Katscher holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Vienna.


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Mary Kavanagh
Mary Kavanagh
Policy Officer
European Commission
Brussels, Belgium

Mary Kavanagh works on international co-operation in Science and Technology. Her present focus is on co-operation with developing countries, particularly Africa.


Until August 2007, she was the Science, Technology and Education Counselor at the European Commission Delegation to the United States. Prior to that she worked at the European Commission Headquarters in Brussels for 10 years. During that time she worked in several different research programs, notably International Co-operation, Life Sciences and Science and Society.


Kavanagh holds a Ph.D. in Plant Science from University College Cork, Ireland and has carried out post doctoral research in France and Switzerland.


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Maria-Regina Kecht
Maria-Regina Kecht
Associate professor of German
Rice University
Houston, Texas
kecht(at)rice.edu

Since 1997 Maria-Regina Kecht has been a faculty member in German Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she has been editor of the journal "Modern Austrian Literature" since 2005. Due to the great success of two NEH Summer Institutes (2001 and 2006) she submitted another proposal for a NEH Institute, which is - if funded - also going to take place in Vienna.


Prior to her arrival at Rice, she taught at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Her research activities focus on 20th century Austrian literature, particularly post-1945 authors. She is completing a monograph that discusses gender aspects of memory work as represented in Austrian literature on National Socialism, and (together with Prof. Schreckenberger at the University of Vermont) she is working on a book on Vienna and the teaching of cultural literacy.


Kecht holds a Dr. phil. summa cum laude from the University of Innsbruck, a M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Teacher's Diploma in Russian from Moscow State University.


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Patrick Kelley
Patrick Kelley
Director of the Board Global Health
Institute of Medicine
US National Academies

Patrick W. Kelley joined the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies in July 2003 as the director of the Board on Global Health. He has subsequently also been appointed the director of the Board on African Science Academy Development.


Prior to coming to the National Academies he served in the US Army for more than 23 years as a physician, residency director, epidemiologist, and program manager. In his last Department of Defense (DoD) position, Kelley founded and directed the DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS). He also served as the specialty editor for the two volume textbook Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment.


Kelley obtained his M.D. from the University of Virginia and his Dr.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.


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Jutta Kern
Jutta Kern
Development Consultant

Jutta Kern was director of the General Management & Corporate Programs unit at Donau University in Krems, Austria prior to joining the Office of Science & Technology (OST).


She was with the OST from 2002 until June 2006.


Kern earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Vienna, Austria, where she was Assistant Professor for several years. Her first book on "Singles" was published in 1997.


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Rogan Kersh
Rogan Kersh
Associate Professor of Public Service and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
New York University Wagner
New York, NY

Rogan Kersh is Associate Professor of Public Service and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, joining New York University Wagner in September 2006, from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.


He spent the 2006 spring term as a Visiting Professor in health policy and politics at Yale University. Kersh has been a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in Health Policy, a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, and Luce Scholar. His professional activities include ongoing work with Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, and board memberships of the Critical Review Foundation and Nancy Susan Reynolds Foundation. He also teaches 2-3 classes per year while he is Associate Dean and continues his research activities, which currently focus on the politics of obesity and on interest-group lobbying.


Kersh received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale, and his B.A. from Wake Forest University.


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Daniela Klammer
Daniela Klammer
Doctoral Candidate, Working Group for Mathematical Physics
Faculty of Physics
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Daniela Klammer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Working Group for Mathematical Physics at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna. She investigates theoretical models of space-time at very small length scales, trying to relate the theory of general relativity to quantum mechanics.


She has studied physics at the University of Vienna, the University of Wales Swansea, and the University of Hamburg. For her diploma thesis, she joined the theory group of the Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron in Hamburg, Germany’s center for particle acceleration, where she also worked as a guide through the laboratories. She has taken part in various summer schools for particle physics – among these, one at CERN. She was an intern at the Office of Science & Technology from October to December 2008.


Klammer holds a master’s degree in physics from the University of Vienna.


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Beate Kleessen
Beate Kleessen
Head of Communications
ICWE, GmbH
Berlin, Germany

Beate Kleessen is currently head of PR and communications management for ICWE, an international conference and event organiser.


She has worked in the PR sector for several public and private organisations in Germany since 1999.


Kleessen has a master’s degree in German and Italian philology from the University of Potsdam, Germany.


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Raoul Kneucker
Raoul Kneucker
Professor honoris causa
Institute of Political Sciences
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria

Raoul Kneucker is a professor honoris causa at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck, Austria.


He was director general of Directorate VI (Scientific Research and International Science Affairs) at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (BMBWK). He retired from the BMBWK on December 31, 2002. He was a lecturer at several Austrian as well as foreign universities, and a guest professor at the University of Nebraska.


Kneucker holds several academic degrees in law, English translation, the political sciences, and the management sciences.


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Christoph Koettl
Christoph Koettl
Program Assistant
Amnesty International
Washington, DC
c_koettl(at)hotmail.com

Christoph Koettl coordinates AIUSA’s responses to international human rights crises and works on a project that utilizes geospatial technologies for documenting human rights violations and preventing conflict.


He previously worked for an NGO that works on Jewish-Christian relations in Vienna and volunteered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.


Koettl holds an M.A. in History and Political Science from the University of Vienna and an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).


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Peter Kolb
Peter Kolb
Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader
Philipps-University Marburg
Marburg, Germany
peter(at)kolblab.org

Peter Kolb is an independent group leader in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Philipps-University Marburg.


His research focuses on computer-aided ligand discovery. The current focus is on G-protein-coupled receptors and method development for fragment-based drug discovery. Prior to his appointment at the university, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.


Kolb holds a Ph.D. in computational biochemistry from the University of Zurich and an M.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Vienna.


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Daniela Koll
Daniela Koll
Deputy Trade Commissioner
Austrian Trade Commission Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Since September 2006, Daniela Koll has been the deputy trade commissioner at the Austrian Trade Commission in Chicago.


Before this appointment, she served for two years in the headquarters of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna, Austria. In 2004 and 2005, Koll was responsible for European Investment for the Mexican Government of Hidalgo, where she worked at the Department of Trade and Industry.


Koll holds a graduate degree in international business administration from the University of Applied Sciences in Kufstein/Tyrol, Austria, and participated in foreign language and business administration studies at the Catholic University in Milan, Italy, and at the University of Alicante, Spain.


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Dan Kolmer
Dan Kolmer
Project Officer
brainpower austria
Bureau for International Research and Technology Cooperation (BIT)
Vienna, Austria
dan.kolmer(at)ffg.at

Dan Kolmer is a project officer for brainpower austria (bpa) and responsible for bpa’s website, contacts with clients in Austria, the design of micro-projects, and public relations. 


While working for the City of Vienna, he established himself as an expert in environmental conservation both on the national and international levels. He has many years experience working as a freelance environmental, PR and marketing consultant, and a designer for new media and 3D graphics.


Kolmer holds a Ph.D. in Marine Ecology, but left science to work in the field of environmental protection.


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Hans Kordik
Counselor for Agriculture and Environment
Embassy of Austria
Washington, DC

Hans Kordik is the Austrian counselor for Agriculture and Environment at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC.


From 1994 to 1999, he worked at the Austrian agricultural intervention board Agrarmarkt Austria. As head of the department, he was responsible for setting up the administration and control system for various direct payments. In 1999 he moved to Brussels to work as agricultural attaché at the Permanent Representation to the European Union. Later, Kordik became a member of the Cabinet of the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. After 3½ years of managing all international affairs for the minister, he became head of the department for EU-Coordination in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, as well as the spokesman for the Special Committee of Agriculture (SCA).


In 1991, Kordik received his master’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Agriculture in Vienna (Universität für Bodenkultur).


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Anton Korinek
Anton Korinek
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
http://www.korinek.com

Anton Korinek joined the University of Maryland as an assistant professor of economics in fall 2007.


His fields of interest are international finance, macroeconomics, and public finance, with a special emphasis on the consequences of capital market imperfections. In his current research, Korinek focuses more generally on the implications of international capital flows to emerging markets.


Korinek earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in April 2007, writing his dissertation on the topic of "Dollar Borrowing in Emerging Markets," which was supported by a DOC grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences.


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Gregor Kos
Gregor Kos
Assistant Professor
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
gkos(at)alcor.concordia.ca

Gregor Kos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Concordia University teaching Analytical Chemistry.


His research interests include the characterization of bioaerosols and volatile organic compounds in snow and their relevance for atmospheric chemistry. He conducted field research in the Canadian High Arctic in 2006. From 2003 to 2007 Kos was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Parisa Ariya at McGill University, Department for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, in Montreal, Canada. Before moving to Canada, he completed his first postdoctoral fellowship in 2003 at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Department for Agrobiotechnology in Tulln, Austria. In 2002 he was visiting scientist at the University of Idaho with Prof. Peter Griffiths.


Kos holds a Ph.D. in technical sciences from the University for Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Department for Agrobiotechnology, Tulln.


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Max Kothbauer
Max Kothbauer
Chairman
President of the Board of Trustees
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austira

Max Kothbauer has played a leading role in many of Austria’s most significant organizations and is currently serving as president/chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Vienna, Austria.


Since the late 1970s, he has been heavily involved in the Austrian banking sector. His previous positions have included terms as CEO for various companies such as the former Austrian Creditanstalt, chief of staff for Franz Vranitzky, the former Austrian prime minister, and a senior advisor and consultant in organizations such as Booz Allen Hamilton. He spends his “free” time serving as a member of the Board of Directors for the Bruno Kreisky-Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and as a member of the Committee of the Austrian Reparations Fund. He is a member of the project advisory board of the Austrian Future Fund and he chairs of the board of trustees of the Austrian Belvedere Gallery.


Kothbauer holds a master’s degree in sociology/social and economic sciences from the University of Vienna, Austria.


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Peter Kowalski
Director General for Scientific Research and International Relations
Division of Science
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Vienna, Austria

Peter Kowalski is currently the director general for Scientific Research and International Relations, Division of Science, at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF).


From 1974 to 1976 he was the director of the Austrian Institute for Research on Vocational Training (ÖIBF). Between 1976 and 2005, he held several positions at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor in the field of research and technology. Kowalski is a member of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development and a member of the advisory board of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). In 2003 he was granted an honorary professorship at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT) in Tyrol, Austria.


Kowalski holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Vienna and received his postgraduate education at the Department of Sociology of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna. Since 1993 he has also been certified as a psychotherapist.


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Linda Krempl
Linda Krempl
Food Science and Biotechnology Scientist
Vienna, Austria

Linda Krempl is a food science and biotechnology scientist and former intern at the Office of Science & Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC.


During her studies, she spent a semester abroad at the Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Australia, followed by a traineeship with CSIRO, Plant Industry. For her master's thesis she had the opportunity to join the transplantation immunology group at St. Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna.


Krempl finished her master's degree in food science and biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna.


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Robert Kuczkowski
Robert L. Kuczkowski
Program Officer, Special Projects/Instrumentation
Division of Chemistry
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia
Rkuczkow(at)nsf.gov

Robert L. Kuczkowski holds the position of program officer, Special Projects and Instrumentation, Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation (NSF), and is professor emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Kuczkowski will retire from the NSF in the Summer of 2008.


He has been responsible for programs in the Chemistry Division at NSF promoting the integration of research and education such as Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Undergraduate Research Collaboratives (URC). He was chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan (1991-1997, 2004-2005). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Kuczkowski received his B.S. from Canisius College and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University.


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Luis Kun
Luis Kun
Senior Research Professor
National Defense University
Washington, DC
kunL(at)ndu.edu

Luis Kun, an information technology consultant and professor of systems management at the Information Resources Management College at National Defense University, Washington, DC, is a medical informatics expert and a consultant in the area of healthcare, public health, and scientific computing.


He spent 14 years at IBM, where he developed the first six clinical applications for the IBM personal computer; was one of the pioneers on bedside terminals for Intensive Care; and a developer of a semi-expert, real-time, clinical decision support system. He was also director of Medical Systems Technology and Strategic Planning at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He advises several Federal Departments, plus the US Congress and the Executive Branch, on information technology infrastructure related to healthcare, terrorism, e-government, and homeland cybersecurity. Kun has lectured on medical and public health informatics, information technology, and bioengineering in over 50 countries, and co-edited Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Springer, 2008).


Kun received his B.S. in electrical engineering, an M.S. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, all from the University of California, Los Angeles.


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Stephan Kurz
Stephan Kurz
Doctoral Candidate's Representative
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Stephan Kurz is the currently elected doctoral candidate’s representative at the University of Vienna and an Austrian Eurodoc delegate.


In the field of German studies, Kurz is writing his dissertation on literary business and media in fin-de-siècle literature.


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