The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has elected 45 new members to its ranks. In this year's elections, 14 female and 31 male researchers from a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, social and cultural sciences as well as mathematics, natural and technical sciences were awarded membership of the OeAW for their outstanding scientific achievements.
The OeAW welcomes the historian Richard J. Evans as a new honorary member of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences. The native Briton, who has been President of Wolfson College at Cambridge University since 2010, contributed in particular to research into German history of the 19th and 20th centuries with groundbreaking work and insights.
The Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences also welcomes a new honorary member: the molecular biologist Erwin Wagner. Born in Carinthia, he gained important insights into cancer research at various scientific stops in Austria and abroad. He has been working at the Medical University of Vienna since 2019.
In addition, 8 full members, 26 corresponding members and 9 members of the Young Academy were elected to the OeAW.
New members are elected once a year. For admission it is important that the individuals meet the highest requirements in terms of personality, scientific work, and reputation in the professional world and that they come from a variety of disciplines.
NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS 2022
HONORARY MEMBERS
Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences:
• Richard J. Evans (Wolfson College, Cambridge University, UK), modern history, contemporary history
Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences:
• Erwin Wagner (Medical University of Vienna), molecular biology
FULL MEMBERS
Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences:
• Andrea Fischer (Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, OeAW), glacier and mountain research
Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences:
• Rainer Abart (Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna), mineralogy and petrology
• Markus Aspelmeyer (Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna), experimental physics
• Thomas Eiter (Institute of Information Systems Engineering, Vienna University of Technology), computer science
• Leticia González (Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna), theoretical chemistry
• Bernhard Jakoby (Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors, Johannes Kepler University Linz), sensor technology
• Sylvia Knapp (Department of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna), infection biology
• Elly Tanaka (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna Biocenter), biology
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS IN AUSTRIA
Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences:
• Robert Nedoma (Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies, University of Vienna), Scandinavian and German studies
• Barbara Prainsack (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna), political science
• Philipp Scheibelreiter (Department of Roman Law, University of Vienna), antique legal history and Roman law
Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences:
• Kaan Boztug (Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute), pediatrics
• Adrian Constantin (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna), partial differential equations, applied mathematics
• Ivo L. Hofacker (Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna), theoretical chemistry
• Alwin Koehler (Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna), mechanistic cell and developmental biology
• Paul Mayrhofer (Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Vienna University of Technology), materials science
• Keywan Riahi (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), energy systems analysis
• Gerhard Schütz (Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology), biophysics
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS ABROAD
Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences:
• Auksė Balčytienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania), media and communication studies
• Jasmina Grković-Major (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), linguistics, Slavic studies, philology
• Jaroslav Hrycak (Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine), history
• Marianne Johanna Lehmkuhl (University of Bern, Switzerland), criminal law and criminal procedural law
• Francesco Sferra (University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy), Indology, Buddhist studies
• Rahim Shayegan (University of California Los Angeles, USA), ancient history, Iranian studies
• Marko Trogrlić (University of Split, Croatia), modern history
• Alessandro Zuccari (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy), art history
Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences:
• Hai Cheng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), paleoclimate research, geochemistry
• Maria Esteban (Paris Dauphine University, France), applied mathematics, mathematical physics
• Benjamin List (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany), organic chemistry, catalysis
• Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), computational physics
• Florian Steger (University of Ulm, Germany), history of medicine, ethics
• Franz-Josef Ulm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), mechanics
• Stephen Young (University of California Los Angeles, USA), biochemistry
• Michael Zgurovsky (National Technical University of Ukraine, Ukraine), cybernetics
YOUNG ACADEMY
• Timon Erik Adolph (Medical University of Innsbruck), gastroenterology
• Anaïs Angelo (University of Vienna), African studies, history
• Andrea Bachmaier (OeAW), materials physics
• Alejandro Raul Burga Ramos (OeAW), biology: evolutionary genomics
• Bruno De Nicola (OeAW), history: manuscript studies
• Claude-Edouard Hannezo (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), theoretical biophysics
• Lisa Isola (University of Vienna), law
• Sandra Müller (Vienna University of Technology), logic (set theory)
• Georg E. Winter (OeAW), chemical biology