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)