Guruprasad Madhavan is a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton where his research is directed toward developing non-invasive, non-pharmacologic, neuromuscular stimulation approaches for enhancing circulation.

In 2008, he was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the US National Academies, Washington, DC. He is senior co-editor of Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Springer, 2008) and enjoys searching for black swans.

Madhavan received his B.E. (honors with distinction) in instrumentation and control engineering from the University of Madras in 2001, and his M.S. in biomedical engineering from SUNY at Stony Brook in 2002. Following his medical device industry experience as a research scientist at AFx, Inc. and Guidant Corporation in California, he completed his M.B.A. in leadership and healthcare management from SUNY Binghamton in 2007.

• Creating Scientific Ambassadors (December 22, 2008)

Joshua Mandell is a Science and Technology Program Officer at The World Bank.

Prior to his current position, he was the Senior Science and Technology Adviser at the British Embassy in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for research collaboration between the UK and US, trade and investment opportunities in S&T, and science policy. Before joining the UK Worldwide S&T Network in July 2003, Mandell worked as an environmental scientist and policy consultant for the United States Air Force and in the private sector where he specialized in areas of geology, hydrology, geographic information systems, remote sensing and environmental regulatory policy. He also served in the Office of the Vice President at the White House.

Mandell earned his degree from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

• Stem Cell Research in the UK: the Cutting Edge of Science and Regulation (July 13, 2005)
• The UK Investment in Science and Innovation: A Forward Looking Framework (October 5, 2004)

Philipp Marxgut has been accredited as Austria's Attaché for Science & Technology to both the USA and Canada since July 2007.

He served at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology from 2005 to 2007 in the Directorate for Innovation where he mainly dealt with European and International R&D Policy. Prior to that, he worked in the Office of the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe and the European Commission in Brussels, was a Research Assistant at the University of Innsbruck and an Intern in the Office of the Austrian Foreign Trade Commissioner in Casablanca.

Marxgut studied law and political science at the University of Innsbruck and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, earned a Master at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and complemented his studies with courses in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Moscow.

• “Better Policy, Better Science” – First Canadian Science Policy Conference Held in Toronto (December 21, 2009)
• Energy Frontier Research Centers: Tackling US Energy Challenges (July 17, 2009)
• Eugene Skolnikoff: the Pioneer of Science Diplomacy (December 22, 2008)
• Innovation Policy in the US – an Interview with Charles Wessner (October 16, 2008)
• From molecular biology to the box office – Eric Kandel’s In Search of Memory (June 30, 2008)

Peter Mascher is a professional engineer and a professor in the Department of Engineering Physics, currently serving as the associate dean (Research and External Relations) of the Faculty of Engineering.

He has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. and master’s degree students, has authored or coauthored more than 160 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and has presented many invited lectures at international conferences and workshops. He is a member of McMaster’s Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research and the Centre for Emerging Device Technologies, as well as a number of international physics and materials research societies. In 2001, he was appointed as the inaugural holder of the William Sinclair Chair in Optoelectronics. Since 2003, he has been the program director of the Ontario Photonics Consortium, a McMaster-led multi-university initiative co-funded by the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund and industrial partners. In 2006, he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Group on Nanotechnology of the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.

Mascher received his master’s of engineering and Ph.D. from the Technical University of Graz, Austria, and spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the University of Winnipeg.

• McMaster University in Canada: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Engineering Education (September 28, 2007)

Ursula Mathis-Moser is director of the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Innsbruck.

Since 2003, she has served as chair of the Austrian-Canadian Liaison Group, which coordinates the Austrian contacts of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta. She is currently the director of the research platform "Cultures in Contact" at the University of Innsbruck. In 2004 she was awarded the Prix Jean-Ethier Blais de critique littéraire for her monograph "Dany Laferrière. La dériveaméricaine". She was president of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking countries from 1995 to 1997, and in 2002 was a visiting professor at the University of Montreal.

Mathis-Moser received her Ph.D. in Romance literatures and stylistics from the University of Innsbruck.

• Building Bridges:Transatlantic Exchanges between Austrian and Canadian Universities (July 13, 2005)

Heike Mayer is an assistant professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning program at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center. Her research interests are in regional economic development, high technology regions, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

She is currently working on two research projects. One examines the evolution of second-tier high-tech regions in the absence of world-class universities. The second project focuses on female high-tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Boston, Portland, and Washington DC. Her work has been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Economic Development Quarterly, Economic Development Journal, and by the Brookings Institution.

Mayer completed both her Master of Urban Studies and Ph.D. in Urban Studies at Portland State University.

• Arlington County: A Leader in Technology-Based Economic Development (December 6, 2005)

Mark McCaffrey is associate scientist and science communications specialist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder.

He has been the co-founder of the Boulder Creek Watershed Initiative, and worked with the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program as an education and outreach specialist where he co-developed the Climate TimeLine information tool and was the lead author of the Abrupt Climate Change Paleo Perspective. He led the development of the Climate Change Collection, a digital library collection of reviewed and annotated resources about natural climate variability and human-induced climate change, coordinated the Poles Together and Integrated Collaborative Education (ICE) workshops to coordinate International Polar Year (IPY) education and outreach efforts, and is a member of the IPY Education, Outreach, and Communications Subcommittee.

McCaffrey holds a bachelor of arts in Southwest studies from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and a master's degree in educational leadership from the University of Northern Colorado.

• The 125 Year Legacy of the International Polar Year (June 29, 2006)

Kari McCarron has been the Senior Legislative Assistant for the MIT Washington Office since July of 2006 after working for the Division of Chemistry of the National Science Foundation.

Prior to her experience at the NSF, McCarron worked for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, helping to manage federal relations activities for its Center for Science, Technology, and Congress.

McCarron earned a MS in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy, specializing in Science and Technology Policy, where she studied the use of public-private partnerships in federal research agencies. She also holds a BA from the University of Michigan in Economics and worked as an economist for several years at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics working with the International Price Program.

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

David Michaels is a research professor and associate chairman of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.

He joined the school in 2001 and directs the project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (SKAPP), bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scientists to examine the use and misuse of science in two forums in which public policy is shaped: the courts and the regulatory arena. Nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the US Senate, Michaels served as the Department of Energy's assistant secretary for environment, safety, and health from 1998 through January 2001. In February 2006, Michaels received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for his work on behalf of nuclear weapons workers and for his advocacy for scientific integrity. He is also the recipient of the American Public Health Association's David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health, and the US Department of Energy's Meritorious Service Award.

Michaels holds a bachelor of arts in history from the City College of New York, and received his M.P.H. in epidemiology and Ph.D. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University.

• "Sarbanes-Oxley for Science" (September 28, 2007)

Walter Minehuber studies entrepreneurship and management at the FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW and economics and computer sciences at the Vienna University of Technology.

He gained international experience during a summer session at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2006, as well as during an internship at the Credit Department at the Erste Bank London Branch in August 2007. Minehuber was an intern at the Office of Science & Technology from October to December 2007.

• Introducing Wolfgang Stürzlinger - an Interface between Humans and Computers (December, 2007)

Victoria Minnich is a Ph.D. candidate at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.

Her research lies in the domain of environmental media, in which she asks a fundamental question: “How can the process of science and environmental decision-making become more accessible to society?” Minnich uses nontraditional storytelling topics, techniques, and mediums to make the stories of science more understandable and reachable for wider audiences.

Minnich holds a bachelor’s degree in biology (ecology and evolution) from the College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

• An Extraordinary Dance of Science – “Dance Your Ph.D.” Performance at the AAAS Conference in Chicago (April 10, 2009)

Peter Moertl is lead human factors engineer at the MITRE Center for Advanced Aviation System Development. He is leading the design and evaluation team in aviation research and development with special focus on runway safety.

He has collaborated for more than 10 years with various aviation organizations including the Civil Aeromedical Institute and Technical Center of the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as NASA Ames and NASA Langley on flight deck- and air traffic controller-related human performance and system design.

Moertl studied psychology at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

• Innovation in Runway Safety: Development of a Flight Deck-Based Runway Safety Alerting System (October 16, 2008)

H. Alan Mooney, P.E. is a licensed, professional engineer in seven states and has been an author and a presenter for various NAHB programs.

Since 1989, he has been the president, treasurer, and director of Criterium Engineers. Criterium Engineers has specialized in residential construction for nearly 50 years, with over 70 offices in more than 30 states.

• Top 14 Reasons for Home Builders to Consider Building Green, (September, 2006)

Marianne Moscoso-Osterkorn is the international director of REEEP, responsible for the partnership’s global operational management.

She joined REEEP in June 2004, after more than 23 years experience in the energy sector and governmental affairs. In 2003, she was named one of the key women in energy, being instrumental in shaping the European green energy certificate trading system.

Moscoso-Osterkorn holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Economics in Vienna and an M.A. in industrial psychology from Western Michigan University.

Contributions

• The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership: Redefining “Natural” Resources (December 6, 2005)

Christine Mrakotsky is Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in the Neuropsychology Program at Children's Hospital Boston. Prior to her appointment at Harvard Medical School, she was Research Associate at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

She was awarded a NIH Ruth Kirschstein Research Fellowship in 2004, a Children's Hospital Boston Faculty Career Development Fellowship in 2006 and 2007, and most recently a NIH K23 Career Development Award from the National Institute of Child and Human Development for her research on "Corticosteroids, inflammation, and memory in pediatric IBD." She was also named an Eleanor and Miles Shore Scholar of Harvard Medical School in 2006 and 2007. Past and current teaching appointments have included guest lectures at the IIGEL Institute for Learning Disorders and Intervention in Munich, Germany, at the Austrian Society for Neuropsychology, and in the Departments of Gastroenterology and Psychiatry at Children\'s Hospital Boston.

Mrakotsky holds a Mag.rer.nat. and Dr.rer.nat./Ph.D. summa cum laude in clinical psychology with a specialization in developmental neuropsychology from the University of Vienna. She also holds licenses in Clinical and Health Psychology in Austria and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• "Elite-Uni" - Progress or Political Dead-End? (April 19, 2006)

Mueller has participated in the traineeship program of the Federation of Austrian Industry from 2004 until 2006. As part of the program, he spent one year in Brussels working at the European Parliament and one year at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2006, he worked as an independent consultant at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Besides his traineeship, he has also worked at the United Nations in New York and at the Austrian Trade Commission in Vancouver.

He holds a master's degree in law from the University of Vienna as well as a master's in international politics from the CERIS/HI Jean Monnet University in Brussels. Since 2005 he has been writing his dissertation at the Law School of the University of Vienna.

• Leading Competence Units - A Node of the Austrian Economy (December 2006)

Jostein Mykletun has been Science Counselor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy since July 2001. He was elected Chair of the Washington Science Diplomat Club in January 2002.

His career spans a variety of areas such as science, science administration, university teaching, government service and industry. Prior to assuming his position in Washington, DC, Mykletun was the Science Counselor at the Mission of Norway to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. From 1996-1999, he was the Secretary General of the Offshore Northern Seas Foundation in Stavanger, Norway. In addition, he has held key positions at The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, the Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education, and the European Science Foundation, among others. He has published a number of articles and books on foreign policy, public administration, disarmament, technology and environmental issues.

Mykletun holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in international relations, political science and economics from the University of Minnesota.

• Washington Science Diplomat Club, SDC (October 5, 2004)

Gerald Müller-Niklas is the project coordinator for brainpower austria (bpa).

Since December 2000 he has been heading the "Increasing the Human Research Potential (IHP)" unit of the Bureau for International Research and Technology Cooperation (BIT). This unit functions also as the Austrian National Contact Point for the EU-programme Human resources and Mobility. Previously, he taught at several Austrian universities and worked for the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, he participated in the United Nations missions to Iraq as an inspector for biological weapons, and headed scientific expeditions to the Franz Josef Land in the region of the North Pole.

Müller-Niklas holds a master's degree in ecology with special focus on aquatic microbial ecology from the University of Vienna. Between 1991 and 1997, he spent several years at various research institutions abroad.

• Hot Summer for Brainpower Austria (October 5, 2004)