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bridges vol. 14, 12. July 2007 / News from the Network: Austrian Researchers Abroad In its "moves & milestones" section, bridges presents career steps and other outstanding events in the professional lives of Austrian scientists and scholars in the US and Canada. Alexander Bankier  will join the faculty of Harvard Medical School, starting in September 2007, and will hold the position of director of Functional Respiratory Imaging at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/sites/bidmc/home.asp).Alexander Bankier studied music and medicine in Vienna. He is currently associate professor of radiology at the Medical University of Vienna and the Vienna General Hospital. As an author of numerous publications and book contributions, his research focuses on all aspects of thoracic radiology. More information on Alexander Bankier can be found at: http://www.thoraxradiologie.at/index.php?id=30 . Hannes Leitgeb 
was appointed professor of mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics in the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics of the University of Bristol (UK).Leitgeb has a Ph.D. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Salzburg, where he has been an assistant professor of philosophy since 2001. After a year as a Schrödinger Fellow at Stanford University, he received offers from Stanford and Bristol, and finally accepted a position at the University of Bristol. He is a member of the European Science Foundation Pool of Reviewers, a managing editor of Studia Logica, an associate editor of Erkenntnis, and a subject editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In 2006 he was a finalist of the Gödel Centenary Young Scholars' Competition, which was organized by the John Templeton Foundation to find the ten most promising scholars worldwide in logic, computation, and philosophy of mathematics. To learn more about him, please visit: http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/people/faculty/plxhl/ or http://www.bris.ac.uk/philosophy/department/staff/hl.html . Access to the full article is free, but requires you to register. Registration is simple and quick – all we need is your name and a valid e-mail address. We appreciate your interest in bridges. |
