Gernot Grömer is president of the Austrian Space Forum and responsible for external relations. He also teaches and does research at the University of Innsbruck.

He’s a member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (Board of Mentors), and has carried out various research sojourns in Italy, USA, and Chile. He is an outreach coordinator of the European lunar mission LunarSat, a simulation in Utah of a crewed expedition on Mars. He’s also part of the Program Management Group AustroMars and PolAres.

Gernot Grömer holds a master’s degree in astronomy (Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck), and is a teaching assistant at the ISU summer school (Cleveland, OH).

• Austria joins the European Southern Observatory – ad Astra per Aspera (July 1, 2008)