Jessie Sackett joined the US Green Building Council in 2003.

She has written extensively on green building for a number of publications including Environmental Design & Construction; Urban Land; DATELINE, the journal of the Design-Build Institute of America; and Engineering News Record. She also manages the USGBC Web site, a primary source of information on the LEED Rating System and green building in the US, and is editor of the Council's spectrum of monthly e-newsletters. Prior the Council, Sackett worked in community and alumni relations for The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and developed technical and marketing communications for a technology firm in Arlington, VA.

Sackett graduated with honors from Binghamton University with a dual degree in English language & literature and French language & literature.

Contributions

• The US Green Building Council: Transforming an Industry with LEED, (September, 2006)

Prior to his appointment as director of the UNESCO-European Center for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) in Bucharest, Romania, Jan Sadlak was chief of the Section for Higher Education Policy and Reform for UNESCO, in Paris. Sadlak is a member of the governing boards and scientific councils of various bodies and organizations and is on the editorial boards of the leading journals in the field of higher education and science policy.

He received a number of high rank academic and national distinctions, including four honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from prestigious universities in Romania, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. In addition, Sadlak is a corresponding member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - Academia Europensis - in Paris, France, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, San Francisco, USA. He is a founding member of the International Rankings Expert Group (IREG). He has authored several books and numerous articles on higher education and science policy. His recent work includes, among other things, a book jointly edited with Nian Liu, entitled World-Class University and Ranking: Aiming Beyond Status (UNESCO-CEPES, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Cluj University Press, 2007).

Sadlak holds a master of arts in economics from the Oskar Lange Economics Academy in Wrocław, Poland, and a Ph.D. in educational administration from SUNY - Buffalo.

• Validity of University Ranking and Its Ascending Impact on Higher Education in Europe (December 2006)

Daniel Sarewitz is director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, and professor in the School of Life Sciences and Department of Geological Sciences at Arizona State University.

His work focuses on the ways that social outcomes derive from political and policy decisions about science and technology. Sarewitz's most recent book is Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery (co-edited with Alan Lightman and Christina Desser; Island Press, 2003). Sarewitz founded CSPO in 1999 while working for Columbia University. Prior to that he was the director of the Geological Society of America's Institute for Environmental Education. From 1989 to 1993 he worked on Capitol Hill, first as a Congressional Science Fellow, and then as science consultant to the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Before moving into the policy arena he was a research associate in the Department of Geological Sciences at Cornell University, with field areas in the Philippines, Argentina, and Tajikistan.

Sarewitz received his Ph.D. in geological sciences from Cornell University in 1986.

• Scientizing Politics - A Review of Chris Mooney's Book "The Republican War on Science" (April 19, 2006)

Johann Sattler has been a career diplomat with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 1996.

He is currently posted to the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., where he is responsible for political affairs and public diplomacy. Prior to assuming his position in Washington, Mr. Sattler was a member of the cabinet of the EU Special Envoy for South East Europe in Brussels, Belgium. From 1997–1998, he worked in the analysis unit of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Johann Sattler holds a Master’s degree in Slavic Languages and Literature and Political Science from the University of Innsbruck, Austria and a Diploma from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.

• When Politics and Science Collide (October 5, 2004)

She gained knowledge and experience in the field of IT through many projects and through an internship in the software development sector. Moreover, she dealt with management, implementation, and evaluation of projects with a main focus on digital media. Schadenbauer was engaged in the concepts of usability, Web design, and new media. In addition, she gained skills in public relations. In June she published her first book about the connection of games, mobility and learning and how mobile phones are able to support the learning process in schools. Sandra Schadenbauer joined the Office of Science & Technology in April and worked as an intern until the end of June 2008.

Sandra Schadenbauer graduated in 2007 from the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM Graz, Austria, with a degree in information management.

Roberta Schaller-Steidl has been with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture since 1996, where she was predominantly responsible for the promotion of women in science and research in the field of higher education. I

In 2004, she was named Chief of the unit overseeing and managing the European Social Fund projects relating to women in science and programs for the promotion of women at universities.

Schaller-Steidl holds a Ph.D. in European Ethnology from the University of Graz, Austria.

• Advancement of Women in Austrian Universities - Framework and Concrete Initiatives for the Advancement of Women in Austrian Universities (July 20, 2004)

Susanne Schandl has worked at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF) since 1986. In 2001, she joined the Ministry’s Department of European Union Science Policy and Coordination. Her main focus has been on issues relating to training and career opportunities for students and researchers.

In recent years, she has been involved with coordinating science projects sponsored by the BMBWK and the European Structural Fund (ESF). She has also worked on a variety of other significant projects, including developing a concept for implementing gender mainstreaming criteria relating to the 6^th Framework Program on Science, Technology and Development of the EU for her department. She has also dealt with the issues pertaining to "brain drain" in Europe, such as how best to improve researcher career possibilities in Europe. Schandl was a Senior Visiting Expert at the Office of Science & Technology in Washington, DC from March through August 2004.

• From Climate Change on Earth to Moon, Mars and Beyond …. (July 20, 2004)

Eva Schernhammer teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health and, since 1999, has been based at the Channing Laboratory, home of several famous cohort studies including the Physicians’ Health Study and the Nurses’ Health Study, on which she is a co-investigator.

She directs several innovative, NIH-funded projects related to her primary research interest in the relation of circadian rhythms and melatonin to cancer risk. Her major scientific contributions have highlighted the effects of light at night on cancer risk through the melatonin pathway. More broadly, she is interested in identifying and applying the use of biomarkers such as insulin-like growth factor and other endogenous hormones. In 2006, she became president of ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America).

Schernhammer holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Vienna Medical School, a Doctor of Public Health degree (epidemiology) from the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a Master of Science degree in psychology from the University of Vienna. She completed her medical training in Vienna and practiced for several years in hematology/oncology before becoming interested in cancer prevention.

• Alpbach Technology Forum: Excellence in Science - a Matter of Gender? (September 20, 2005)

Martin Schmid is a member of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture. He has been with the EU-Research Policy and Coordination Unit of the Ministry for a number of years.

Within that unit, Schmid is responsible for coordination and legal matters concerning the EU Framework Programs and European R&D policy. His main expertise lies within European law and Austrian administrative law. Since July 2005 Martin Schmid has been working as attaché for scientific affairs at the Austrian Representation to the EU in Brussels. Together with Franz Pichler he was responsible for leading the negotiations on the 7th Research Framework Programme during the Austrian council presidency 2006.

Schmid holds a Master’s degree in Law from the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria.

• The European Institute of Innovation and Technology: The Twin City Headquarters (April 28, 2008)
• Courting the Masterminds - the European Union's Efforts to Attract Researchers (September 28, 2007)
• The First Six Months of FP7 and an Outlook on the Portuguese EU Presidency (July 12, 2007)
• Green Paper on new perspectives for the European Research Area - a new attempt to overcome the fragmentation of Europe's research landscape (April 16, 2007)
• European Institute of Technology - more of the same or a promising tool to fight the European innovation paradox? (December 2006)
• Letter from Brussels, (September, 2006)
• The Seventh Framework Program – Europe’s Next Step Toward the Lisbon Goals (October 5, 2004)

Sonja D. Schmid is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, CA during the academic year 2007/2008.

She remains an Affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, where she spent the past two years as a Social Science Research Associate. She is working on a book project (tentative title: Producing Power: the Construction of a Civilian Nuclear Industry in the Soviet Union) that won the 2006 Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Award from the Society for the History of Technology.

Schmid received her Ph.D. in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University in 2005.

• Nuclear Renaissance in the Age of Global Warming (December 2006)

Klaus Schmidt is vice-dean and professor at the faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna. He also serves as president of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics.

He held different positions such as research fellow, lecturer and professor at Mathematics Institutes at the University of Manchester, University of London and University of Warwick before returning to Austria in 1994. He also served as the Scientific Director of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute between 1995 and 2003.

Schmidt received his Ph.D degree in Mathematics from the University of Vienna in 1968.

Contributions:

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

Roland Schneider studies socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

His work experience includes internships at the Vienna Science and Technology Fund and the Platform for Science and Technology Evaluation. From January through March 2007, Roland Schneider was an intern at the Office of Science & Technology.

In the course of his studies he spent five months studying economics in the School of Business, Economics, and Law at Gothenburg University in Sweden.

• Science Impact: Rethinking the Impact of Basic Research on Society and the Economy (July 12, 2007)
• "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" vs. "Strategie 2010" - an American and an Austrian RTI Strategy Recommendation Compared (April 16, 2007)
• Introducing Cornelia Fermueller: the Science of Seeing (April 16, 2007)

Klaus Schuch is the business and research manager at one of the largest non-university social-scientific research institutes in Austria, the ZSI – Centre for Social Innovation.

Before joining the ZSI, he worked as research assistant at the Vienna University for Business Administration and Economics. Later he established the branch office of the Austrian Institute of East- and Southeast European Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria. For more than five years, he was the head of the unit for international RTD co-operation at the Bureau for International Research and Technology (BIT). In this capacity he also acted as Austrian National Contact Point for the international S&T programs of the European Commission.

Schuch holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Vienna. He is a specialist in international S&T policies.

• R&D Cooperation with the West Balkan Countries—A White Spot on the ERA Map? (December 7, 2004)

In May 2006, Barbara Schultze joined the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor where she is employed in the HR department.

After gaining experience as a law clerk, she worked in a law firm specializing in IP and business law.  Her previous work experience includes internships at the Austrian Trade Commission in Paris and in various law firms in Vienna. She joined the Office of Science & Technology from January to March 2007 as a visiting expert sent from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor.

Schultze holds a master's degree in law from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has studied at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is currently working on completing her Ph.D. dissertation in international arbitration.

• "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" vs. "Strategie 2010" - an American and an Austrian RTI Strategy Recommendation Compared (April 16, 2007)
• Measuring the Austrian innovation landscape - Fact sheet on the Austrian S&T Report 2006 (April 16, 2007)
• The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum - the "Go-to" Place in Transatlantic Technology Law (April 16,2007)

Johannes Schwank is full professor of chemical engineering and director of the Transportation Energy Center.

His main research interests are heterogeneous catalysis with special emphasis on advanced transportation energy concepts, fuel processing for fuel cells, automotive emission control catalysis, microelectronic thin film gas sensors, and advanced energy storage and photocatalytic materials. Schwank came to the US as a Fulbright-Hays scholar to conduct postdoctoral research in the area of catalysis with Professor Giuseppe Parravano. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1980. In 1987/88, he was on sabbatical leave at the University of Innsbruck and at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and served as chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department from 1990 to 1995. He is the author of more than 150 publications, holds eight US patents, and has an international consulting practice. He also teaches courses on the science and engineering of fuel cells and fuel processors for industry, NASA, and other organizations.

Schwank studied chemistry at the University of Innsbruck where, in 1978, he received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry.

• The Transportation Energy Center at the University of Michigan: Fuels for the Future (June 29, 2006)

Achim Seifter joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory in spring 2002.

He is responsible for contact less temperature and emittance measurements on several shock physics experiments. Seifter also conducts basic research towards improving temperature determination on very fast experiments. His other research includes exploring new techniques to determine pressure induced phase transitions.

From 2001 – 2002, Seifter was assistant professor at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria, where he also earned his Ph.D. in Physics.

Christian Seiser is Head of the Department for EU Research Policy and Coordination Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, Vienna, Austria.

Since 2005, Christian he has been deputy director general for EU Research Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF). Prior to this position, he had been head of the department for EU Research Policy and Coordination in the ministry since 2001; from 1999 to 2001 he was the Austrian Science Attaché at the European Union in Brussels.

Seiser holds a Ph.D. in political sciences from the University of Vienna.

• Service is Our Ambition: Austria is Taking Over the Chair of the European Union (December 6, 2005)

Mark A. Shannon is also the director of the Micro-Nano-Mechanical Systems (MNMS) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This laboratory is a 2000-square-foot class 10 and 100 clean room laboratory devoted to research and education in the design and fabrication of micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS), microscale fuel cells and gas sensors, micro-nanofluidic sensors for water and biological fluids. He chairs the Instrument Systems Development Study Session for the National Institutes of Health.

Shannon is the James W. Bayne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UIUC, and received his B.S. (1989), M.S. (1991), and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

• Desalination: Using Advanced Technologies for the World’s Freshwater Supply (July 1, 2008)

Katja Simons is the project director of the German Academic International Network (GAIN) at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in New York.

Her position includes finding and contacting German scientists and scholars in North America, organizing events, writing and distributing an electronic newsletter on current developments in higher education and research policy in Germany and Europe, and developing and managing a website. Prior to working for the DAAD, Katja was a research associate and adjunct professor in Urban and Regional Sociology at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt-University in Berlin.

Simons received her Ph.D. at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, where she was part of a research training group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on the Ruhr Area. Her dissertation on the governance dynamics of large scale urban development projects was published in 2003.

• Competing for the Best and Brightest: Germany Gets in the Game (July 20, 2004)

Jennifer Slimowitz has served as an Associate Program Manager in the Western Europe program of the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) since February 2005. She manages activities with France, Germany, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece.

Prior to her position in OISE, she served as a program officer at the National Academies’ Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications. She also held positions at Rice University as a G.C. Evans Instructor in the Department of Mathematics and as a curriculum coordinator in the Wiess School of Natural Sciences.

Slimowitz earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, specializing in symplectic geometry, and her B.S. in mathematics from Duke University.

• International Activities and the US National Science Foundation (December 22, 2008)
• International Activities and the US National Science Foundation (July 13, 2005)

Roman Smutny has been scientific assistant to professor of architecture Treberspurg since 2005.

He ha worked several years in architecture and engineering offices. He is interested in vernacular architecture, sustainable building design, renewable building materials, solar energy, and evaluation methods for sustainable development (e.g., life cycle assessment). The topic of his doctoral thesis is the evaluation of sustainable settlement development.

Smutny graduated in civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

• Green Building Technology in Austria: State of the Art and Prospects, (September, 2006)

Nancy Somerville is the executive vice president/CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Since joining ASLA in 2000, Somerville has reenergized the Society's advocacy and public relations programs, enhanced the Society's communications with its membership and chapters, and expanded the services and information resources available to ASLA members through strategic alliances and partnerships. A longtime advocate for the design professions, Somerville joined ASLA after 18 years with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), where she served as managing director and vice president of program areas including membership, state and local government affairs, chapter relations, and continuing education.

A native of the Washington DC, area, Somerville received her undergraduate education at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree from Stanford University.

• The American Society of Landscape Architects: Sustainable Design - a Growing Area of Landscape Architectural Practice, (September, 2006)

Alexander Soucek works at the European Space Agency on international data policy and legal aspects of earth observation.

He has done extensive research in the field of space law and policy at the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University inWashington, DC, the NASA Flight Center in nearby Greenbelt, Maryland, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, Austria, and the German Space Operations Center near Munich. He also worked as scientific assistant in international law at the University of Salzburg. He is a member of the European Center for Space Law (ECSL), editor of the Space Law Newsletter Austria, and project leader of a variety of space outreach programs, among those Austria’s largest Youth Space Competition to date, 'spacecity salzburg' (2001).

Soucek studied law in Salzburg, Austria and is currently working on his Ph.D. He previously earned a Master’s degree in Space Studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

• Galileo and GMES: Europe's Symbols of Independence in Space (June 29, 2006)
• Conference Report: Space and Security (July 20, 2004)

Bob Souer has been the voice for bridges' podcast since it was launched in April 2006.

His voice-over career started in 1979 when he was discovered while selling real estate in suburban Chicago. You can hear Souer's voice on radio and television programming and commercials, training films, video games, voice mail systems, CD-ROMs, and the Internet. You might even hear his voice giving you a safety briefing the next time you fly. He blogs about his life as a voice-over talent at bobsouer.com/blog/.

Souer has a degree (B.A.) in vocal performance from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, and has studied voice-over under Dick Orkin and Pat Fraley.

Since 2000, Attilio Stajano has lectured at the University of Bologna, Italy, on Research and Technology Policy in the European Union.

He spent 14 years as a civil servant at the European Commission, where he worked as the adviser to the director of esprit, a program of research and technological development in information technologies, aimed at strengthening the European information technology industry through cross-borders cooperative research and development projects. Prior to that, Attilio held various positions with IBM, covering a broad range of experiences: research, development, teaching, professional training, management, and administration. During his postgraduate studies and his career at IBM, Attilio Stajano had research and lecturing appointments at the Universities of Rome, Pisa, and Bari, in Italy and at the laboratories of Frascati, Italy, and of CERN, Switzerland.

Stajano was the 1998 European Union Fellow at the Center for West European Studies (CWES) and at the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition, he studied the process of technology transfer at the University of Pittsburgh and in general in the US, establishing contacts with the research community and its business outreach.

• Global Competitiveness: an Uncertain Outcome of the EU Uphill Struggle for Competitiveness (December 22, 2008)

Michael Stampfer is Managing Director of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), a private non-profit research funding institution. Its main aim is to fund scientific research in Vienna that has a medium term application potential.

From 1998 to 2002, Stampfer was program manager for the Austrian K plus Funding Program (within TIG), building up the largest single RTD funding program in Austria. From 1992 to 1998, he worked as a policy advisor and program officer in several Austrian federal ministries, where he worked on technology policy issues.

Stampfer holds Ph.D. in Law from the University of Vienna.

• “Multiple Funding”—More than a Challenge for Austrian Universities (October 5, 2004)

Philipp Steger was the Attaché for Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, D.C. from 2000 to July, 2007.

In 2001, he founded the Office of Science and Technology (OST) with the support of the respective Federal Ministries in Austria. Previously, Steger was the chief officer for science and technology in the office of then Minister for Science and Transportation Caspar Einem.

Philipp Steger holds a Master's degree in Law and a Ph.D. in Law and Political Science from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, which included a three-year research stay at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Subsequently he was awarded a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna, Austria. His book, "Farewell to a Catholic Country? Poland’s Church after Communism" (Abschied vom katholischen Land? Polens Kirche nach dem Kommunismus), was published in 2001.

• Letter from the Editor (December 14, 2006)
• Letter from the Editor (September 28, 2006)
• Letter from the Editor (June 26, 2006)
• Letter from the Editor (April 19, 2006)
• Introducing Angelika Amon - exploring "the genesis of life itself" (April 19, 2006)
• Letter from the Editor (December 6, 2005)
• The Nicobar Islands: Linking Past and Future (December 6, 2005)
• Progress – a mixed blessing, to be reassessed continously (September 20, 2005)
• Rudolf Taschner: The Mathgician (September 20, 2005)
• Letter from the Editor (July 13, 2005)
• Arden L. Bement: A Vacuum Cleaner for New Knowledge (July 13, 2005)
• At a Crossroads between Tradition and Innovation - An Introduction to the Debate on the Austrian University Reform (July 13, 2005)
• The Anonymous Source – an Endangered Species? (July 13, 2005)
• Letter from the Editor (April 14, 2005)
• David Goldston: a Practiced Hand Running the House Science Committee (April 14, 2005)
• How Thomas Brabec Thinks (April 14, 2005)
• John Marburger: a Practical Scientist Advising the President (April 14, 2005)
• Pandora’s Box – Bringing Science into Politics: The Debate on Scientific Integrity in U.S. Policymaking (April 14, 2005)
• Letter from the Editor (December 7, 2004)
• Letter from the Editor (October 5, 2004)
• Austria’s Public Radio & Science Communication (October 5, 2004)
• From Austria to NIH and Back: The Story of Ariana and Christian Wechselberger (October 5, 2004)
• Introducing Gregor Kos: St. Anthony’s Fire, Mycotoxins and the Common Good (October 5, 2004)
• Letter from the Editor (July 20, 2004)
• Arthur Carty: Science Advisor to the Canadian Prime Minister (July 20, 2004)
• Science & Technology Policy North of the Niagara Falls (July 20, 2004)
• The Lieben Prize – History Interrupted and Time Regained (July 20, 2004)
• Letter from the Editor (April 20, 2004)
• Austria, a Model for Life Sciences and Scientists’ Lives (April 20, 2004)
• Science Journalism in the U.S. and Austria (April 20, 2004)

Deborah D. Stine is a science and technology policy specialist with the Congressional Research Service. She became a member of the CRS staff in August 2007. Among her duties at CRS is providing analysis for congressional staff regarding the America COMPETES Act.

From 1989 to 2007, she was at the National Academies – the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council – where she was associate director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, and director of the National Academies Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program. While at the National Academies, she was study director of the landmark National Academies report entitled Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, for which she received the President’s Award – the highest staff award offered at the National Academies.

Stine holds a B.S. in mechanical and environmental engineering, a master’s degree in business administration, and a Ph.D. in public administration with a focus on science and technology policy analysis from American University.

• Three Years After The US National Academies Report “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future" - an Upadate (October 16, 2008)

Since 1992, Georg Stingl has been professor and chairman of the Division of Immunology, Allergy & Infectious Diseases, Department of Dermatology, at the University of Vienna Medical School in Vienna. He is a full member of the Section for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In 1980 he was promoted to the position of associate professor of dermatology at the University of Innsbruck Medical School. From 1977 to 1978, as well as from 1985 to 1986, he was a guest researcher at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He holds numerous honorary memberships in several national and international dermatological societies and has more than 300 scientific publications.

In 1973 Stingl earned his M.D. at the University of Vienna under the auspices of the president of the republic. In 1998 he was certified as a Specialist in Immunology by the Austrian chamber of physicians.

• ISTA: Institute of Science and Technology - Austria (April 19, 2006)

Martin Streicher is a consultant at Simon - Kucher & Partners, an international management consulting company.

He gained experience in marketing, among other fields, by working for Beiersdorf in Hamburg and worked as an intern at the Office of Science & Technology from April through June 2006. Within the framework of his master's thesis, he analyzed the influence of the ongoing transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe on cultural values. Within this research project he drew conclusions for actual problems faced by Austrian companies in this region.

Streicher studied management and international business at the University of Graz, Austria, and the Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

• An Interview with Helga Nowotny: The European Research Council (ERC) - Fostering Basic Research in Europe (June 29, 2006)
• Re$earch Re$ources - The OeNB Jubiläumsfonds (Anniversary Fund) for the Promotion of Scientific Research and Teaching (June 29, 2006)

Johannes Strobl is a student of technical physics at the Vienna University of Technology.

In 2006 he spent a term at the University of Arizona in Tucson, participating in the AE3 (American European Exchange in Engineering) program. He has worked as a lecturer and guide for a public observatory, in IT for an insurance company, and at private tutoring facilities. From July through September 2007, he was an intern at the Office of Science & Technology at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC.

Strobl is currently working on his master's thesis at the Center of Computational Materials Science at the Vienna University of Technology.

• Introducing Ulrike Diebold - Scanning Devilish Surfaces of Benign Materials (September 28, 2007)
• Review of Faust in Copenhagen - A Struggle for the Soul of Physics written by Gino Segrè (September 28, 2007)

Sonja Strohmer is a research assistant working at the Department of Industrial Sociology at the University of Vienna on the topic of Foreign Direct Investments and industrial relations in Europe, which is also the topic of her Ph.D. thesis that she is writting.

She was formerly working as a national reporter for the EU agency, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) and as freelance researcher for the Working Life Research Center FORBA on the topics of Corporate Social Responsibility and working conditions in the Austrian business consultancy sector. During the Austrian EU Presidency in 2006, Strohmer worked as project manager at the Office of Science & Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC, where her focus was on assisting in coordinating the EU presidency activities of the OST.

Strohmer studied sociology at the University of Vienna and at the Charles University in Prague. Her main focus was on economic sociology and the sociology of organizations.

• Giving Up Austrian Citizenship? No Way! (June 29, 2006)
• The OST's Program for the Austrian EU Presidency Continued... (June 29, 2006)
• US Satellite Campuses in the Middle East: Cross-Cultural Mediators or Missionary Outposts? (April 19, 2006)
• The OST's Program for the Austrian EU Presidency: Climate Change, Obesity, Education and Green Buildings (April 19, 2006)

Dorothea Strozyk is currently a fellow in Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and is a board certified neurologist.

Prior to her current position she completed a clinical and research fellowship in Vascular and Critical Care Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in Boston. She finished her neurology training at Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and a two year post-doctoral fellowship in Neuroepidemiology at the National Institute on Aging (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Her clinical and research interests include minimally-invasive imaging-guided therapies for the treatment of vascular disorders of the brain and spinal cord.

Strozyk received her medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria.

Lisa Surprenant is a project manager for ICF International, and has had more than two decades of experience working on energy efficiency initiatives for commercial and industrial energy efficiency.

She has been working as deputy work assignment manager for the ENERGY STAR program, promoting the financial and environmental benefits of high efficiency housing in the United States. She has also designed programs for commercial, industrial, and residential energy efficiency and renewable energy in developing countries like Thailand and Vietnam, where she designed the "Vietnam Energy Conservation Program." She has lived and worked in 11 countries and speaks English, Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese.

Surprenant has earned both a bachelor of science in interior design (1983) and an associate of applied science (A.A.S.) in architectural technology (1981) from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

• Learning from Las Vegas: The EU Can Bet on ENERGY STAR (September 28, 2006)

Mark A. Suskin is Senior Program Officer in the Office of International Science and Engineering at the NSF.

Before returning to headquarters in September 2007, he was Head of the NSF Europe Office in Paris, France. Before that, he was program manager for Germany, Austria, and the Nordic countries in the Office of International Science and Engineering, managing proposals for collaboration between U.S. and foreign researchers in all fields of science and engineering. Prior to his post at the NSF, he worked as an analyst in the International Security and Space Program of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA).

Suskin received his Ph.D. in theoretical atomic physics from the Johns Hopkins University.

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