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
Vice-Chairs
Further representatives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Heinz Faßmann (President, OeAW)
- Ulrike Diebold (vice President, OeAW)
NMO Secretary
- Viktor J. Bruckman (Austian Academy of Sciences)
Representatives of the Federal Government
- Heribert Buchbauer (Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research)
- Arnold Obermayr (Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs)
- Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Regions and Water Management - currently not nominated
Representatives of Austrian Universities
- Georg Brasseur (Graz University of Technology)
- Jesús Crespo Cuaresma (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
- Otto Doblhoff-Dier (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)
- Erich Gornik (Vienna University of Technology)
- Hubert Hasenauer (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)
- Thomas Kienberger (Montanuniversität Leoben)
- Gottfried Kirchengast (Karl Franzens University Graz)
- Dietmar Kuhn (University of Innsbruck)
- Reinhard Neck (University of Klagenfurt)
- Sabine Pahl (University of Vienna)
- Kurt Schlacher (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
- 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)
- Heinz Mayer (Joanneum Research)
- Christine Mayrhuber (Austrian Institute of Economic 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)
Recorded lectures held at committee meetings
98th meeting of the IIASA committee (November 20, 2020)
Piero VISCONTI (IIASA): Why System Analysis, Ecology and Conservation need each other
Piero Visconti is a Research Scholar with the Ecosystem Services and Management program (ESM) at IIASA and an honorary research fellow with the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, UCL, and the Institute of Zoology of the Zoological Society of London as well as an Academic Visitor with the University of Cambridge Conservation Science Group. He co-supervises PhD students at each of these institutions.