Former Staff Members

Mag. Dr.

Georg Aichholzer, sociologist of technology with a doctorate, worked at ITA from 1993 until May 2017 as a senior scientist, in particular in the area of 'e-governance'.

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Dr.

Anja Bauer is a political scientist with a focus on environmental, sustainability and technology governance and worked at ITA from June 2015 to May 2020. She was particularly interested in the role of expertise, anticipation and participation in decision-making processes. She worked on public participation in the context of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as well as the practices and paradigms of policy advice in technology assessment.

Prof. Ernest Braun was the founding director of the Technology Assessment Unit (TAU) 1988 to 1991, which became in 1994 the Institute of Technology Assessment. He was previously professor for physics and technology policy at the Aston University in Birmingham.

See: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Braun_(Technikforscher)

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Mag.

Leo Capari is a human ecologist and was a Junior Scientist in the Technology and Sustainability Department at ITA from June 2013 to May 2022. His main research interests were Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), Environmental Sciences /Sustainability Sciences but also Bibliometrics/Scientometrics. A methodological focus of interest was computer-based social network analysis and network visualization. 

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Ing. Mag.

Johann Čas a technology assessment expert from January 1988 to the end of March 2023 and thus one of the first scientific staff members of ITA. In his research, he has dealt with numerous aspects of the information society and societal consequences of information and communication technologies. Past research interests include technological development programs, employment and regional development impacts, and regulatory issues of new telecommunications technologies.

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MMag.

From May 2010 to January 2011 associated researcher at ITA in the area of governance of technology controversies and moved as research associate to the. Center for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Vienna.

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Was 1990 scientific staff member of ITA.

Was 2014 scientific staff member of ITA.

Dr.

From October 2007 until May 2011 employed at ITA in the project NanoTrust. Subsequently, he became a scientist at 'Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE' - Division Materials - Solar Cells and Technologies MST, in Freiburg (Germany).

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MSc BA

Daniela Fuchs is a human ecologist and joined ITA in April 2014 as a Junior Scientist until March 2023. She has been working on public participation issues in the context of new technologies (neuroenhancement, synthetic biology) in several EU projects, as well as on the use of computer modeling in policy advice.

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Was 2015 scientific staff member of ITA.

Was 1987-1992 office staff member of ITA.

Was 2013 scientific staff member of ITA.

Mag.a

From February 2008 until July 2008 employed by ITA (office, IT-support).

Mag.a

Alicia Gutting is a cultural studies graduate and worked as a junior researcher at the ITA in the field of energy system transformation and sustainable energy technologies from November 2017 until September 2018. Since 2015 she has been working as a research assistant at the ITA, first in the project Monitoring of Urban Technologies (MuT), then in 2016 in the project MATCH: Markets - Actors - Technologies. In October 2018 she joined the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm as a PhD candidate in the ERC project NUCLEARWATERS.

Was 1996 scientific staff member of ITA.

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Was 1985-1987 scientific staff member of ITA.

Mag.a

In 2008, she started at the ITA as an intern and then continued to work on several projects. After her graduation she became a staff member and was involved in the project NanoTrust and other projects on sustainable development and environment technologies. Her focus lied on the media coverage of nanotechnology in print media in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and on participatory processes on nanotechnology.

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Was 2000-2005 scientific staff member of ITA.

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Mag. (FH)

Werner Kabelka was Information Manager and IT Generalist at ITA from August 2008 to June 2020.

Was 1998-2000 scientific staff member of ITA.

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Was 1992-1995 scientific staff member of ITA.

Dipl.Soz.

From April 2008 until January 2011 employed at ITA, firstly as trainee, then as scientific assistent in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT). After that postgraduate at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) in Karlsruhe (Germany).

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Univ.-Doz. Mag. Dr.

From 2004 until 2008 employed by ITA in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT); after that professor at the University of Zurich ('IPMZ - Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung').

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Was 1996-1997 scientific staff member of ITA.

Was 1990-1996 scientific staff member of ITA.

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Dipl.-Ing.

Sara Najafi worked for ITA 2011/12 in the PACITA project.

From August 2006 until August 2007 employed by ITA (office).

Was 1990-1997 scientific staff member of ITA.

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From July 2007 to October 2012 at ITA in the field of office management.

Was 1988-1990 scientific staff member of ITA.

Was 1986-1998 scientific staff member of ITA.

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MSc BA

Gloria Rose is a human ecologist and was a Junior Researcher at ITA from June 2016 to June 2022. Her work focuses on the governance of nanotechnology and sustainable urban development. 

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Mag.

From February 2008 until July 2008 employed by ITA in the field of e-governance. After that at the University of Zurich, 'IPMZ - Institut für Publizistikwissenschaft und Medienforschung'.

Publications

DI BSc

Felix Schaber was a Junior Scientist at ITA from February 2019 to October 2022. Among other things, he dealt with questions regarding the legal and ethical implications of ICT.

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Mag. Dr.

From 2000 until September 2006 employed by ITA in the field of environmental technology and sustainability.

Publications

From 1990 until 2007 employed by ITA (office).

Was 1998-2000 scientific staff member of ITA.

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Was 1992-1999 scientific staff member of ITA.

Was 1995 and 1997-2000 scientific staff member of ITA.

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Prof.in Dr.in

Prof. Dr. Myrtill Simko was a researcher in the project NanoTrust from 2007 to 2013. She moved to the Austrian Institute of Technology.

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Dr.in

Tanja Sinozic studied science and technology policy, spatial planning, environmental policy and economics, and was employed at ITA from October 2015 to December 2022 in the area of technology development and the interactions between technologies, economy and society.

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Was 1985-1987 scientific staff member of ITA.

From November 1996 to October 2019 at ITA in the field of project management.

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Dr., Univ.-Prof. i.R.

From 1991 until 2005 director of the ITA and moved to the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) as a consultant.

Helge TORGERSEN

Dr.

Helge Torgersen joined ITA in June 1990 and worked initially in the field of biotechnology, later on governance of technology controversies. He was generally interested in the relationship between technology development and societal perceptions; specifically, in recent years he worked mainly on societal aspects of synthetic and systems biology as well as nanotechnology and on participatory processes of technology assessment. He retired at the end of 2019.

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Mag.a Dr.in

Dr. Petra Wächter was a researcher at the ITA (see projects) from March 2009 to February 2015. In march 2014 she passed with honors her doctoral studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business with the title: Future Energy Use in Austria: Contributions about the Transformation to a Sustainable Energy System.

Publications

Was 1992-2003 office staff member of ITA.

Dr.

From September 2008 until February 2009 senior guest researcher at ITA in the area of e-governance. After that division manager for 'environment & waste management' at trend:research GmbH, Bremen (Germany).

Publications

PD Dr.

From 1989 until 2006 employed by the ITA as specialist in medical technology; after that director of the newly founded Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment.

Publications

Mag. Dr., MSc

From 2002 until 2008 research fellow at the ITA in the area of e-government/e-democracy. After that member of research staff of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment (Vienna).

Publications

Dr.

From July 2005 to April 2006 staff member at ITA in the area of 'Health Technology Assessment'; then staff member at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment.

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Mag.a

Mrs. Zinner worked at the ITA from March 2012 to March 2015 in the field of project management, particulary for the EU project SurPRISE.

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