Reinhard Folk is a senior associate professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Linz.

From 1993, he was a member, and from 1999 to 2003 the chairman of the “Federal Conference of Non-Professorial Academic Staff of Austria’s Universities” (Bundeskonferenz des wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Personals der österreichischen Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen”, BUKO), that was closed by UG2002 on December 31, 2003.

Reinhard Folk holds a doctoral degree in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna.

• The University Act of 2002: Teaching and Researching in an ‘Enterprise University’ (July 13, 2005)