Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger is Associate Professor of German at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where she has been teaching since 1992. Dr. Lamb-Faffelberger offers a wide range of courses, including courses in Business German, Women’s Studies, German Language, Literature and Culture Studies.

Prior to assuming her current position, Dr. Lamb-Faffelberger gained academic teaching experience at Rice University. In addition, she worked for the American Institute of Music Students in Austria and the Goethe Institute in Houston.

Dr. Lamb-Faffelberger is the author of a number of books and articles on German literature. Her latest book entitled Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film was published in 2004. She is also a specialist on Austrian author and 2004 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Elfriede Jelinek.

Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and a Master´s degree in German Literature from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

• Elfriede Jelinek: Contemporary Literature's 'Cassandra' (December 7, 2004)

Christina Leb is a researcher at the Law Faculty at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and works as an independent consultant in the field of transboundary water resources management and international water law with international governmental and non-governmental organizations such as the World Bank and World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Her research focuses on governance of transboundary watercourses and aquifers, and state cooperation in international law. Previously, she has worked at the World Bank as a member of a multi-sectoral team that supports cooperation and water resources development among the ten riparian countries of the River Nile.

Christina Leb earned an M.A. in conflict management and development economics from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in 2001, and holds a law degree from the Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in international water law at the University of Geneva.

• International Water Law and Climate Change: Avoiding Disputes Over Water (July 1, 2008)

Since 2004, Muriel Lederman has been associate professor emerita at Virginia Tech. A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 1977, Lederman has served as a teacher and adviser to numerous undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students during her career. She focused her research on parvoviruses and on the social and gender studies of science and teaching. Lederman served as the coordinator of the Biological Sciences Initiative and as a faculty affiliate in the Women's Studies Program.

Ms. Lederman, among others, received the Finalist for Diggs Teaching Scholar Award (2001) and the Advancing Women Award, Women's Center (2003) from Virginia Tech. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of social and gender studies of science and pedagogy, as well as in virology. On May 9, 2006. Prof. Lederman held a presentation on Teaching Science with the Social Studies of Science for Equity at the OST's EU Presidency Meeting on "Innovative Approaches To Science Education."

Muriel Lederman holds a Ph.D. in biological sciences and an M.A. in zoology from Columbia University.

• Science as a Social Acitvity (June 29, 2006)

Dr. Lensch received his Ph.D. in molecular and medical genetics from Oregon Health Sciences University for research with Grover Bagby, M.D. This work refined the understanding of the role of unique selective pressures in the leukemia and cancer predisposition syndrome Fanconi anemia. His post-doctoral work began with George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D. at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, and is now within the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston and the Department of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School where Dr. Lensch is an Instructor in Pediatrics. Dr. Lensch's current research revolves around the use of human embryonic stem cells as platforms for understanding genetics, development, and diseases of the blood-forming system.

• Clear Science, Uncertain Future? (April 14, 2005

Mr. Lintner is the project manager for the federal sector for the Laboratories for the 21st Century Program and a staff member of the Federal Energy Management Program within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy within the Department of Energy (DOE).

Mr. Lintner has more than 20 years experience in the energy and utilities management fields. In addition to managing Labs21 for DOE, Mr. Lintner also participates in DOE's Departmental Energy Management Team. He was named one of DOE's Energy Champions for the Year 2000 for his significant contributions to reducing the annual operating costs of DOE's own facilities by $100 million through the installation of energy conservation measures.

Prior to working at DOE, Mr. Lintner was a senior engineer for steam systems for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. As such, he was responsible for providing technical assistance to the Navy's shore installations to improve the performance of Navy heating plants and distribution systems. His responsibilities included such initiatives as the "Clean Steam" program to deliver purified steam to the Navy's ships while in port. He is a registered mechanical engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is currently chairman of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Northern Virginia Section.

• Moving Laboratories into the 21st Century (September 20, 2005)

Marie Céline Loibl coordinates the initiative, ResearchEducationCooperation, at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. She is an expert on the evaluation of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and qualification processes, and gives seminars on transdisciplinary working methods.

Céline Loibl holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Göttingen.

• Junior Colleagues Research and Education Joining Forces: Introducing the Austrian Research Program "proVISION: Precaution for Nature and Society" (December 2006)

Johannes Loschnigg is currently a professional staff member for the House of Representatives Committee on Science (Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee), where he is responsible for issues related to the International Space Station, as well as NASA’s Earth Sciences, Biological and Physical Research. From 2003-2004, Dr. Loschnigg was a professional staff member for Senator Joseph Lieberman on the Senate’s Governmental Affairs Committee, where he was responsible for issues related to cyber-security, homeland security, and environmental oversight. Prior to that, Dr. Loschnigg worked as a AAAS Congressional Science and Technology Policy Fellow in Senator Liebermann’s personal office, covering science and technology issues, including wireless broadband and spectrum, energy and environment, climate change, semiconductor manufacturing, nanotechnology, federal science R&D, cyber-security, homeland security and defense S&T.

From 1998-2002, Dr. Loschnigg was affiliated with the University of Hawaii, where he initially worked as post-doctoral fellow and later became a member of its research faculty. In addition, he held positions as graduate research and scientific assistant at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the NASA Ames Research Center, the Department of Physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, and the Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Johannes Loschnigg holds a B.A. in Physics and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and both a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

• NASA's Budget Outlook: Having Too Much to Do with Too Little? (June 29, 2006)
  
• A Capitol Hill Perspective on the Federal R&D Budget for 2005 (April 20, 2004)

Thomas Lörting is currently heading a research group dealing with supercooled water, amorphous water and ice. Previously, he did research on nanotechnology and surface science with Prof. Erminald Bertel at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck. From October 2001 – October 2003, Dr. Lörting worked with Prof. Mario J. Molina at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, investigating the interaction of atmospheric trace gases with ice crystals to better understand the processes which cause the annual springtime formation of the ozone-hole above Antarctica. Following the completion of his Ph.D. in 2000, Dr. Lörting joined the research group of Prof. Andreas Hallbrucker and Prof. Erwin Mayer in Innsbruck. Together they discovered a high-density form of amorphous ice named VHDA.

Thomas Lörting holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Innsbruck, Austria in the field of theoretical chemistry.