2023-11-28 03:04:00
That’s when the Ministry of Education announced the new composition of the twelve-member council (which should actually have been in place at the end of July).
Thomas Henzinger will chair the committee. The Linz resident, who completed his computer science studies at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, was the first president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) until the end of 2022.
The FWIT Council is an independent legal institution under public law that will advise the Austrian federal government on questions of research, technology and innovation policy.
The twelve members
The twelve council members nominated yesterday have been appointed for four years. The other members in addition to Thomas Henzinger: computer scientist Johanna Pirker (TU Graz), historian Barbara Stelzl-Marx (Uni Graz), science researcher and ex-president of the European Research Council (ERC) Helga Nowotny, the neurologist working in the USA and president of the Austrian Association Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) Dietrich Haubenberger, Evotec boss Werner Lanthaler, physicist Monika Ritsch-Marte (Med-Uni Innsbruck), the managing director of the Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR) Sonja Sheikh, the Swedish innovation expert Sylvia Schwaag Serger, the TTTech board member Georg Kopetz, the former managing director of the Climate and Energy Fund Theresia Vogel and social scientist Jörg Flecker (University of Vienna).
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