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bridges vol. 15, Sept 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. Gregor Weihs  received the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics. Weihs is associate professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Department of Physics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in Canada. Previously, he was assistant professor at the University of Vienna in Anton Zeilinger's group and at Stanford in Yoshi Yamamoto's group. Weihs earned his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna and graduated "Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae Austriae" (with special honors by the president of the Austrian republic). More information on Weihs can be found at his Web site: http://www.iqc.ca/~gweihs/ For further information on the Canada Research Chairs, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/22o2e2 Boris Mizaikoff  was recently elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1198 ) and has accepted a chaired W3-Professorship heading the Institute for Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Ulm, Germany.Mizaikoff currently holds a position as tenured associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, US, heading the Applied Sensors Laboratory and the Focused Ion Beam Center at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. To learn more about Boris Mizaikoff and his research group, please visit: http://asl.chemistry.gatech.edu/ Herwig Kogelnik 
received the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush in the White House on July 27. The National Medal of Technology honors America’s leading innovators.Kogelnik has spent 46 years at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he was the director of both the Electronics Research Laboratory and the Photonics Research Laboratory. Further information can be found at: http://www.technology.gov/medal/ Matthias Scheutz 
has left Notre Dame University to join the faculty of Indiana University Bloomington as associate professor in the Cognitive Science Program where he will continue his work on cognitive science and robotics.At Notre Dame University, he was the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory. Scheutz earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1995 and a joint Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1999. For further information please visit: http://mypage.iu.edu/~mscheutz/ Tina Wakolbinger 
was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis, in August 2007.She completed her Ph.D. in business administration with a concentration in management science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2007. Wakolbinger is a recipient of a 2006 Graduate Student Fellowship for Outstanding Students from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 2006 she was awarded the Judith Liebman Award from INFORMS (The Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences). For further information please visit: http://fcbe.memphis.edu/modules/general/Fc_facdetails.php?id=403&topic=bio Anton Korinek 
has accepted a tenure-track position in the economics department of the University of Maryland after receiving his Ph.D. (with distinction) from Columbia University. His current fields of interest are international finance, macroeconomics, public finance, and econometrics.In his dissertation, he focused on the causes and consequences of dollar-denominated debts in emerging markets and their role in financial crises. Other current research topics include the effects of taxation in contestable democracies where tax policies change over time, and the correction of household surveys for the biases created by unit non-response. For more information please visit: http://www.korinek.com Klaus Podar 
was awarded the 2007 Dunkin’ Donuts Rising Star Award. The prize, which carries a cash award of $100,000, recognizes his many contributions to recent advances in understanding the pathophysiology and deriving new treatment strategies in multiple myeloma, a still-incurable hematologic malignancy. Klaus Podar has served on the faculty board of Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2004. In addition, he has been chapter head of ASciNA Boston since March 2007. To learn more about Klaus Podar, please visit: http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/membership/member-profile/member/9504/0/ Dieter Haemmerich 
received the Developing Scholar Award from the Medical University of South Carolina. This annual award is given to junior faculty for outstanding achievements in all aspects of an early academic career.In addition, he received the Mitchell I. Rubin research award, given annually by the Department of Pediatrics at MUSC in recognition of research achievements. He has been assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology since 2004, and is adjunct faculty in the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson University. To find out more, please see: http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/2007/co8-17spirit.html Or http://ablation.musc.edu Thomas Boehm  joined Bavarian Nordic in Munich in August 2007 to work on clinical development programs for new vaccines. In 2004 he joined Jerini AG in Berlin and worked until June 2007 as medical director on the Clinical Development team. Prior to this appointment, Boehm spent eight years as a postdoctoral fellow, first at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, and then at the Children's Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Sabine Fruehstueck 
published a new book, Uneasy Warriors – Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (University of California Press, August 2007).She is professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies and director of the East Asia Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (UC Press, 2003). See her Web site for further information: http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/content/people_fruhstuck.html More information on her books can be found at: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10616.html Wolfgang F.E. Preiser 
recently finished his new book, Designing for Designers. The book is coauthored by Jack L. Nasar, Ohio State University, and Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota. More information on the book can be found at: http://www.fairchildbooks.com/book.cms?bookId=193 Wolfgang Preiser left the University of Cincinnati as professor emeritus and will soon join the faculty of Arizona State University. He holds a Ph.D. from Penn State, master’s degrees in architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as the First State Exam from the Technical University in Vienna, Austria. For further information, please see his Web site: http://www.daap.uc.edu/people/profiles/preisewg Ilja Luciak 
has published a new book, Gender and Democracy in Cuba. In this in-depth view of Cuban gender politics and democracy, Luciak considers the role that women played in the Cuban revolution. More information on the book can be found at:http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=LUCIAS06 Ilja A. Luciak is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He earned a J.D. at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. To find out more about Prof. Luciak, please see: http://www.mpia.vt.edu/faculty.php?page=luciak Kurt R. Leube 
organized the 3rd International Gottfried von Haberler Conference hosted by ECAEF, The European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation, in cooperation with Hochschule Liechtenstein and with the support of multiple local and international sponsors. Kurt R. Leube is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and is internationally recognized as a leading authority in the tradition of the Austrian School of Economics. Leube is guest professor in a number of European and Latin American universities. He is the director and founder of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Institute, Vienna (Austria) and editor-in-chief of The International Library of Austrian Economics. For further information on Leube, please see: http://www.hoover.org/bios/leube.html To find out more on the 3rd International Gottfried von Haberler Conference, please visit: http://www.ecaef.li/ Thomas Teo 
organized the International Society for Theoretical Psychology conference with over 260 delegates from 35 countries, which met in June 2007.He is an associate professor in the History and Theory of Psychology Program at York University in Toronto, Canada. In 2007 he was also awarded SSHRC’s (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) highly competitive Standard Research Grant (2007-2009) for his research on the History and Theory of Epistemological Violence in Race Psychology. To learn more about Thomas Teo, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/tteo/ Gerhard Bauer 
will sponsor an HIV symposium this winter, along with Satya Dandekar, chair of the UC Davis Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. The symposium will include his key collaborators from City of Hope, the Scripps Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on novel treatments of HIV using cellular therapies, in particular, gene therapy for HIV in hematopoietic stem cells.Bauer is professor of medicine and cell biology at the University of California at Davis. He directs the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) laboratory on the UC Davis Health System campus in Sacramento. Before that, he was the laboratory director of the GMP Facility, Division of Oncology, at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Bauer earned his M.D. at Vienna University Medical School. For further information, read the interview with Bauer at: http://www.ostina.org/content/view/1474/ |
