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bridges vol. 26, July 2010 / 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. Guenter P. Wagner  was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Wagner is the Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and an expert on the genetics of development and the uses of mathematical modeling to understand complex molecular adaptations of organisms. He served as the first chair of Yale’s Department of Ecology and Evolution from 1997 to 2002 and 2005 to 2008. He has been the recipient of numerous awards (MacArthur Prize,1992; Humboldt Prize, 2005) and is also a corresponding member of Austrian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. After his undergraduate education in chemical engineering, Wagner studied zoology and mathematical logic at the University of Vienna, where he received his Ph.D. in 1979. For more information visit: http://info.med.yale.edu/bbs/faculty/wag_gu.html Peter Zoller  together with his colleague Ignacio Cirac, was awarded the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics for their theoretical proposal and experimental realization of the first device that performs elementary computer-logic operations using the quantum properties of individual atoms. Previous award laureates include Albert Einstein, Rudolph Diesel, Marie and Pierre Curie, Thomas Edison, Jane Goodall, Orville Wright, Stephen Hawking, and Jacques Cousteau, just to name a few.Zoller is research director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and teaches at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck. He was recently elected a foreign associate by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). From 1990 to 1994, Zoller was a researcher at JILA in Colorado. He has also held guest professorships and lecturer positions at the University of Leiden, Harvard University, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Peter Zoller earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Innsbruck in 1977. For more information about Peter Zoller, his research, and the award, visit: http://www.fi.edu/franklinawards/index.html Boris Mizaikoff  was appointed assistant professor at the Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Ulm and received the Craver Award of the Coblenz Society.Mizaikoff’s research focus is infrared optical sensor systems, using scanning electrochemical microscopy for the characterization and optimization of chemical recognition interfaces and molecularly imprinted polymers. Previously, he was director of the Focused Ion Beam Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an author/co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications, holds 14 patents, and has made numerous invited contributions at scientific conferences. Dr. Mizaikoff holds a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the Vienna University of Technology. For more information visit: http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news360135 Manuel Sprung  has received the venia legendi (habilitation) in psychology at the University of Munich and recently published an article in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry reporting results from a study on the cognitive processing of stressful/traumatic experiences in children affected by the Hurricane Katrina disaster.Sprung is currently at Harvard University on an Erwin-Schroedinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund, working on a study that further investigates how children exposed to stressful/traumatic events process these adverse experiences and how this is related to children’s cognitive developmental level. Sprung holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Salzburg. For more information visit: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~msprung/ 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. |
