Roman Raab worked as a graduate research assistant in economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. He is an expert on pension reforms and retirement incentives.

His fields of interest are applied microeconomics, labor economics, public finance, economics of aging, and actuarial economics.

Raab holds a doctoral degree in economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies of Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Pension Reform and Retirement Incentives: Evidence from Austria (October 16, 2008)

Lisette Ramcharan was the Science and Technology Counselor at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, and has returned to Canada.

She joined Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995. Ramcharan served as Second Secretary (Political/Economic) at the Canadian High Commission in Harare, Zimbabwe from 1999-2002. In 1998-1999, she was Legal Officer in the Oceans, Environmental and Economic Law Division specializing in Law of the Sea issues and environmental agreements. In 1997-1998, she was Indonesia/Philippines desk officer.

Ramcharan was educated at McGill University (B.A. Honors Political Science, 1990) and at the University of British Columbia (LL.B., 1993). She was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1994.

• Representing Canada’s S&T Interests in Washington, D.C. (July 20, 2004)

Edward Rau is a captain in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. His current duties are focused on biomedical facility sustainability initiatives and directing the mercury reduction campaign of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In 1984, he transferred to the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and has since served as an environmental health officer in various positions, primarily working in areas of pollution prevention and hazardous waste management. He has also conducted research on thermal inactivation of scrapie, a disease of livestock caused by an agent similar to the one causing mad cow disease.

Rau has a bachelor's degree in biology and a M.S. in environmental and occupational health sciences from California State University at Northridge, and a graduate certificate in hazardous materials management from the University of California, Davis.

• The NIH's "Mad as a Hatter?" Campaign - Protecting People and the Environment from Mercury (September 28, 2007)
  This contribution was made with the assistance of Charles Blumberg, architect in the Division of Environmental Protection (DEP) at NIH, and the Director of DEP William K. Floyd.

Georg Reichard is assistant professor of building construction and a core faculty member of the recently founded Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech.

He was previously employed at Graz University of Technology in Austria, where he taught and researched at the Department of Structural Analysis from 1996 to 2004.In his current research, he focuses on building performance, systems integration, integrated control strategies and smart building materials - using modeling and simulation to improve buildings, their systems and the involved processes.

Reichard holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Graz University of Technology.

• Are Green Buildings just Houses Painted Green? An Austrian-American (Sustain)ability Test, (September 2006)

Hans Reichenfeld is a semi-retired clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa.

He is the author of numerous papers on clinical psychiatry, end of life issues, history of medicine, the development of geriatric psychiatry and has self-published his autobiography, On the Fringe, in 2006. He is also the past president of the Ontario PsychoGeriatric Association and has received a certificate of recognition from the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry in July 1999.

Reichenfeld received his degree at the University of London.

• Event Report: Exile and the Dispersion of a Culture - The Austrian Experience Symposium in Ottawa, Canada (December 2007)

Wolfgang L. Reiter is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna and co-founder and vice president of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics.

Until 2002 he was director of the natural sciences unit at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture. His interests are in the history of physics and the forced migration of scientists from Austria.

Reiter received his Ph.D degree in nuclear physics from the Institut für Radiumforschung und Kernphysik at the University of Vienna in 1974.

Contributions:

• Where Mathematics Meets Physics: The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics celebrates its 15th anniversary (April 28, 2008)

In October 2005, she will finish her law studies at the University of Vienna, focusing on Computers and the Law. 

• Federal R&D Budget: The Proposal for Fiscal Year 2006 (July 13, 2005)
• Free Culture, Creativity and Media Law (July 13, 2005)
• Internet Governance: Squaring the Circle (July 13, 2005)

Patricia Rife is an e-marketing professor for the University of Maryland University College's Graduate School of Management & Technology.

Throughout her career, she has worked with corporations and marketing projects locally and globally. Rife was involved in community-based organizational training, grant-writing and program-planning in various organizations.

Rife holds a B.S. in journalism and global studies education and a Ph.D. in history of science from Union University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Austrian Woman Physicist Lise Meitner (1878–1968) and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission (October, 16 2008)

Since 1996, Nana Rinehart has been the vice president of ISEP.

Her responsibilities include supervising the coordination and implementation of reciprocal exchanges among 275 member institutions in the US and 39 other countries involving 2,200 students annually; reviewing prospective member applications, overseeing integration of new members, and visiting new and current member institutions in the US and abroad; and meeting with administrative and teaching staff, students, and institutional leaders to review the program implementation and ISEP's overall contribution to campus internationalization. Before assuming a leadership role at ISEP, she served as program officer, administering student exchanges between ISEP member institutions in the US and Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Philippines.

Rinehart earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, has taken graduate courses in education at The American University, and received her M.A. from the University of Copenhagen. She studied abroad in France and at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. As a Fulbright exchange student, she attended Connecticut College; she also taught English at Trinity College and the American University in Washington DC.

• Can International Educational Exchange Survive in Today’s Competitive Environment? (September, 2006)

Joshua Roebke is a senior associate editor at SEED, a science and culture magazine based in New York, where he currently edits the Incubator section of the magazine.

Roebke joined SEED in 2005 and has contributed occasional articles on science, in particular physics, to the magazine.

Prior to working at SEED, Roebke was pursuing a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from McGill University in Montréal, where he received a master's degree in high energy physics in 2003.

• The Reality Tests (July 1, 2008)

Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he oversees the blog ClimateProgress.org.

Romm is author of a book on climate science, solutions, and politics entitled Hell and High Water: Global Warming-the Solution and the Politics (Morrow, 2007). He is the former acting assistant secretary of energy efficiency and renewable energy at the US Department of Energy, and has written and lectured widely on energy technology, environmental management, and competitiveness.

Romm holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. and did his thesis work at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

• "Offsets: Hype or Hope" (September 28, 2007)

Robert W. Rosner was born in 1924 in Vienna and immigrated in 1939 to England. After his return to Austria, he studied chemistry at the University of Vienna and in 1957, he began to work at the Loba Chemie Company in Austria.

After his retirement in 1990, he studied political science and history of science at the University of Vienna. He has published a number of papers that focus on different aspects of the Austrian chemistry industry.

Rosner holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and a master’s degree in political science and history of science from the University of Vienna.

• The Life of Marietta Blau – Austrian Physicist and Pioneer of Particle Physics (July 12, 2007)

Laura Rossacher is a journalism and public relations graduate at the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM in Graz, Austria.

In the summer of 2006 she supported the Austrian Press and Information Service at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC, during a three-month internship. Her work experience includes an internship at the Corporate and Finance Communication Department of the car manufacturer AUDI, an internship at the Austrian News Agency APA, as well as several internships at regional Austrian newspapers.

In October 2007 Rossacher received her master's degree in communications.

• In Search of Memory - an Interview with Eric Kandel (April 16, 2007)

Jodie Roussell is associate director of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE).

She manages operations and leads several international programs including the REEEP North America Secretariat. Previously she worked in solar energy consulting with Solar International Management, and in international market research.

Roussell is a graduate of Georgetown University in Chinese Studies, and speaks Mandarin Chinese, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

• The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE): Building Domestic and International Partnerships for the Success of Renewable Energy (December 6, 2005)