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bridges vol. 22, July 2009 / 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. Peter Schuster  was appointed foreign associate of the US National Academies of Sciences (NAS) in April 2009. NAS has approximately 2,100 members and 380 foreign associates worldwide.Born in Vienna in 1941, Schuster received his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 1967 and in 1973 he was appointed full professor in the field of theoretical chemistry. He holds numerous memberships in various academies of sciences and was elected president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a post which he held from 2006 to 2009. His research interests lie in such scientific disciplines as theory of the hydrogen bond and intermolecular forces, theory of molecular evolution, and genetic regulatory networks and metabolic networks. For more information please visit: http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~pks/ http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i18/8718notw7.html Florian Ederer  was appointed assistant professor in the Strategy and Policy Group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. An economist by training, his research interests include organizational economics, contract theory, the economics of innovation, and experimental economics. His current research focuses on how firms design compensation and performance evaluation schemes to motivate workers, in particular incentives for innovation in single- and multi-agent settings, the interplay of incentives and deception, the design of incentive systems that prevent gaming, and the optimal use of feedback mechanisms in organizations. Prior to joining UCLA Anderson School of Management, Ederer received his Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 2009 and his M.Phil. in economics at Oxford in 2004. For further information please visit: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x23698.xml http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/florian.ederer/ Martin Hetzer  was awarded the Early Career Life Science Award of the American Society of Cell Biology in 2009. Since 2009 he has been an American Cancer Society Research Scholar (2009-2013). Martin Hetzer is Hearst Endowment Associate Professor at the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. To learn more about Martin Hetzer and his achievements please visit: http://www.salk.edu/faculty/hetzer.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. |
