The Austrian Academy of Sciences is the Austrian National Member Organization (NMO) of IIASA. It represents the interests of the Austrian scientific community in the IIASA Council and acts as a liaison between political decision-makers and the public. The organizational unit responsible for all matters concerning IIASA at the Austrian Academy of Sciences is the Austrian IIASA Committee.
It advises the Chair of the Committee, who represents the Austrian NMO at the IIASA Council, in all scientific and organizational matters concerning IIASA that are dealt with and resolved upon in the IIASA Council. These matters include, without being limited to, all issues related to the scientific work program of IIASA, basic IIASA institutional management matters and participation in IIASA research projects. It is also the task of the Austrian IIASA Committee to keep Austrian research institutions and researchers informed about the research activities at IIASA, to promote cooperation and to provide assistance with the use of IIASA infrastructure.
The Austrian IIASA Committee is incorporated into the overall Academy and consists of representatives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, one representative each of the competent Federal Ministries, of the Austrian Universities relevant to IIASA research and of non-University research and research funding institutions.
Representatives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (NMO)
Chair (and IIASA council member representing Austria)
Vice-Chair
Further delegates, OeAW presiding committee
- Heinz Faßmann (President, OeAW)
- Ulrike Diebold (vice President, OeAW)
NMO Secretary
Representatives of the Federal Government
- Bernhard Bichler (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Regions and Water Management)
- Heribert Buchbauer (Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research)
- Georg Kilzer (Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs)
Representatives of Austrian Universities
- Michael Bockstedte (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
- Wolfgang Bösch (Graz University of Technology)
- Jesús Crespo Cuaresma (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
- Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (Vienna University of Technology)
- Helmut Haberl (BOKU University)
- Thomas Kienberger (Montanuniversität Leoben)
- Gottfried Kirchengast (University of Graz)
- Dietmar Kuhn (University of Innsbruck)
- Barbara Metzler-Zebeli (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)
- Reinhard Neck (University of Klagenfurt)
- Sabine Pahl (University of Vienna)
- Peter Zinterhof (provisionally) (Salzburg University)
Representatives of Austrian non-university Research and Research Funding Institutions
- Herbert Edelsbrunner (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
- Christof Gattringer (Austrian Science Fund)
- Emmanuel Glenck (Austrian Research Promotion Agency)
- Mathias Harzhauser (Natural History Museum Vienna)
- Hans Irschik (Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft)
- Christine Mayrhuber (Austrian Institute of Economic Research)
- Michael Ploder (Joanneum Research)
- Heinz Redl (Ludwig Boltzmann Society)
- Andreas Schiefer (Statistics Austria)
- Leopold Sögner (Institute for Higher Studies)
- Robert Trappl (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
- Matthias Weber (Austrian Institute of Technology)