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bridges vol. 32, December 2011 / 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. Alexander Neumeister  was promoted to Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) and on December 1, 2011, started a new position at New York University Medical School, where he will head and build up a brain-imaging program for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), depression, and substance abuse disorders.Prior to this, Neumeister was an associate professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University. Neumeister completed medical school at the University of Vienna in Austria, where he did his residency in psychiatry and neurology from 1991 to 1998 in the Department of Psychiatry. Nikolaus Gantner  has joined the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, this fall as an inaugural winner of a Banting Fellowship.The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, named after Sir Frederick Banting, is a new, highly competitive fellowship program, which is designed to position its winners to become Canada's next generation of leaders in research excellence. Gantner's research team will investigate interactions between climate and food web contaminants in Arctic lakes in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories, with a focus on mercury in edible fishes. You can also find some more information off these links: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/about-a_propos/gantner-eng.html http://www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca/aboutus/profile-fr.php?id=175 Bernadette Wegenstein  has finished her newest book, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty, which will be published in January 2012 by MIT Press.She is a research professor and documentary filmmaker, as well as the director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literature at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Further Information, see: http://grll.jhu.edu/italian/bios/bernadette-wegenstein/ Robert Prevedel  moved back to Austria and is senior postdoctorat fellow at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories at the Campus Biocenter Vienna under the leadership of Alipasha Vaziri, where he works on Multi-scale Understanding of Biological Function.Until recently, he was a researcher at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Furhter Information, see: http://www.mfpl.ac.at/mfpl-group/group/vaziri.html http://www.ostina.org/content/view/5930/1539/ Hans Steiner  has recently published and edited the Handbook of Developmental Psychiatry and Fast Facts: Eating Disorders.Steiner is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist focusing on providing clinical consultation, evaluation, and integrated treatment. He is a founding member of the Pegasus Physicians at Stanford, a group of doctors who write creatively. As professor emeritus at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, he also teaches Stanford undergraduates, graduate students, and students in the Continuing Studies Program. Further information: www.hanssteiner.com Christian Retscher  moved back to Europe to take a position at the Frankfurt-based European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).Before joining EUMETSAT, Retscher was an associate research scientist at Goddard Earth Sciences Technology & Research . Retscher received his Ph.D. in physics (2004) and M.Sc. in physics (2000) from the University of Graz, Austria. His thesis was on stratospheric ozone and temperature sounding by the Envisat/GOMOS stellar occultation sensor. Werner M. Dietl  and his colleagues Michael D. Ernst and Peter Mueller won the best paper award at the 25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) held in Lancaster, UK, July 2011. Their paper was on tunable static inference for generic universe types.Werner Dietl is a research associate at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering in Seattle, Washington. Peter Nagele  received the Theodor Billroth Award, endowed with € 7500, from the Aerztekammer Vienna for his research findings on chest-compression-only CPR.Nagele and his team published an article in December 2010 in The Lancet on chest-compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) versus standard CPR. Nagele is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and past president of ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America). Peter Nagele holds an M.D. from the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria. For more information visit: http://wuphysicians.wustl.edu/physician2.aspx?PhysNum=3520 Herbert Frank and Udo Hoffmann  are organizing the 7th Clinical Update on Cardiac MRI & CT, to be held in Cannes, France, April 20–22, 2012. This is an international meeting that aims to offer new perspectives on the implementation of the newest cardiac MR and CT technology into patient management.The main focus of the meeting will be the potential of exciting noninvasive techniques to improve patient care. Personal interaction with world-renowned experts in both cardiac MRI and CT will guarantee a unique view on many sometimes-controversial topics. Herbert Frank is head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Landesklinikum Tulln, Lower-Austria. Udo Hoffmann is a cardiac radiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Further information on the congress: http://cannes2012.medconvent.at/home.html |
