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.

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