Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner is a program manager for brainpower Austria, a program of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

Prior to joining FFG, he held the position of a Policy Officer at Eurodoc, the European federation of young researchers. Eppenschwandtner is also co-founder of the Austrian young researchers' network, doktorat.at.  In the first half of 2007, he was a trainee at the Council of the European Union in Research and Industry Policy.

In 2006, Eppenschwandtner received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Vienna University of Technology where he worked in research projects on category theory and applications of algebra in logic and set theory.

• Giving Young Researchers Their Due: PhD Candidates in Austria Build a New Platform, (September 28, 2006)