Welcome Words
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Festsaal of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Plenary
in englischer Sprache
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Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franz FISCHLER
President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
| 1973-1979 | Research Assistant, Institute for Agricultural Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1978 | Doctorate, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1979-1984 | Executive Assistant, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1985-1989 | Director, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1989-1994 | Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna |
| 1995-2004 | European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Brussels |
| 2005-2011 | Chairman, Ecosocial Forum Europe, Vienna |
| 2005-2015 | Chairman, RISE-Foundation, Brussels |
| 2014-2015 | Chairman of the Steering Committee of the EU scientific programme for Expo Milano 2015 |
| since 2012 | President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna |
| since 2016 | President, Board of Trustees to the Austrian Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna |
Dr. Pavel KABAT
Director General and Chief Executive Officer, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
| 1982 | M.Sc. Hydrology and Water Resources |
| 1983 | Advanced programme Stochastic Hydrology and Water Resources |
| 1986 | Ph.D. in Hydrology, Water Resources and Amelioration |
| 2006-2012 | Full Professor and Chair, Earth System Science and Climate Change Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre |
| 2004-2012 | Science Director and Programme Council Chair, Dutch National Climate Research Programme; Vice-Chair, Dutch National Climate Facility |
| 2007-2010 | Dutch Cabinet Appointed Member of the 'Delta Committee' |
| 2000-2012 | Chair of the Board and Director, Wageningen Climate Change and Biosphere Research Centre |
Dr. DDr.h.c. Anton ZEILINGER
Professor, Institut für Quantenoptik, Quantennanophysik und Quanteninformation sowie Vizedekan, Fakultät für Physik, Universität Wien; Wissenschaftlicher Direktor, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, ÖAW - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
| 1963 | -71 Study of Physics and Mathematics, Universität Wien |
| 1971 | Ph.D., Universität Wien, thesis on "Neutron Depolarization in Dysprosium Single Crystals" under Prof. H. Rauch |
| 1979 | Habilitation in Neutron and Solid State Physics, Techn. Univ. Wien |
| 1972 | -81 'Universitätsassistent', Atominstitut Wien, under Prof. H. Rauch |
| 1974 | -89 Guest Researcher (part-time), Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France |
| 1977 | -78 Fulbright Fellow in the U.S.A., Research Associate at M.I.T. in the Neutron Diffraction Laboratory under Prof. C.G. Shull (Nobel Laureate 1994) |
| 1981 | -83 Associate Professor of Physics, M.I.T. |
| 1983 | -90 'Außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor', Technische Universität Wien |
| 1984 | Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 1986 | -89 Adjunct Full Professor, part-time, Hampshire College, Amherst, U.S.A. |
| 1988 | -89 'Universitätsprofessor' (C4, sabbatical), Techn. Univ. München |
| 1990-1999 | 'Ordentlicher Universitätsprofessor' (Full Professor) of Experimental Physics, Universität Innsbruck |
| 1995 | Visiting Professor, Collège de France, Paris |
| 1996-1998 | President, Austrian Physical Society |
| 1998 | Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University |
| 1999 | -present "Ordentlicher Universitätsprofessor" of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna |
