Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner is co-founder of the initiative doktorat.at and a member of the council of Eurodoc, the European federation for young researchers, since 2004.

In the first half of 2007, he worked as a trainee at the Council of the European Union in research and industry policy.

Eppenschwandtner has a Ph.D. in mathematics (Vienna University of Technology); his research field is at the intersection of category theory and set theory.

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