Since the autumn of 2007, Oliver Lehmann has been in charge of Communications and Media Relations at IST Austria.

During his career, he has written for the Berlin-based daily newspaper taz, the Vienna city newspaper Falter, the art and travel magazine Merian and the weekly Stern – both in Hamburg, Germany, the News in Vienna, and the BBC World Service. Prior to going to IST Austria, Lehmann was editor-in-chief of Universum magazine in Vienna, Austria’s leading popular science publication.

As a trained science journalist, Lehmann is also a lecturer in science communication at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Advanced Training at the University of Klagenfurt and moderator for roundtables and conferences related to the public understanding of science.

• New Tales from the Vienna Woods – Institute of Science and Technology Austria Opens Campus (July 17, 2009)