Competition for Talent
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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German and English language
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Mag. Dr. techn. Claire GMACHL
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University; Director of MIRTHE (NSF-ERC)
| received the PH.D. degree (sub auspicies praesidentis) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1995. In 1996, she joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, as a Post-Doctoral Member of Technical Staff in the Quantum Phenomena and Device Research Department. Key contributions were the development of singe-mode and tunable distributed feedback Quantum Cascade lasers and chaotic micro-cavity lasers. In 1998 she became a member of Technical Staff in the Semiconductor Physics Research Department, and a Distinguished Member of Staff in 2002. In September 2003, Dr. Gmachl joined Princeton University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and adjunct faculty to PRISM. Prof. Gmachl is the Director of MIRTHE, the newly formed NSF Engineering Research Center on Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment. |
Ph.D. Andrew HERBERT
Distinguished Engineer, Managing Director Microsoft Research, Cambridge
| Herbert s research interests include networks, operating systems, programming languages and distributed information sharing. | |
| Before joining Microsoft Research in 2001, he was director of Advanced Technology at Citrix Systems Inc., where he was instrumental in steering the company toward Internet thin-client technologies and initiating development of products for Web-based application deployment and for the emerging application service provider market. | |
| Herbert joined Citrix in 1998 from Digitivity Inc., which he founded in 1996 to develop a product to enable secure deployment of Java clients for business-to-business applications. Digitivity was a spinoff from APM Ltd., a research and consulting company Herbert founded in 1985. APM managed ANSA, an industry-sponsored program of research and advanced development into the use of distributed systems technology to support applications integration in enterprisewide systems. ANSA s work included research on support for interactive multimedia services, object technology for World Wide Web applications, distributed systems management, mobile object systems and security for electronic commerce. Herbert led ANSA s technical program, built up its team, created its architecture, and made ANSA known and respected in the industry. ANSA-based technology was used by many organizations ahead of the widespread availability of commercial CORBA-based products. Notable successes included the NASA Astrophysics Data System, a European radio pager system and the online customer service system for a major U.K. utility. As part of his ANSA work, Herbert played an active role in many standards and consortia for distributed computing including the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINA-C), ISO/ITU ODP, the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment (OSF DCE) and Object Management Group (OMG) CORBA. |
Dr. Jean-Marie LEHN
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Professor, Collège de France, Paris; Director, Laboratoire de Chimie Supramoléculaire at ISIS, Strasbourg
| Studied physical, chemical and natural sciences at the University of Strasbourg | |
| 1960 | Junior Member, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Guy Ourisson's laboratory |
| 1960-1966 | Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| 1963 | Thèse de doctorat d'Etat sur la résonance magnétique nucléaire de triterpènes |
| 1964 | Laboratory of Robert Burns Woodward at Harvard University |
| 1966-1969 | Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department of the University of Strasbourg |
| 1970 | Promoted Associate Professor and then Full Professor, Université Louis Pasteur (ULP) of Strasbourg |
| 1970-1979 | Professor, Université Louis Pasteur (ULP) of Strasbourg |
| 1972 | /1974 Visiting professor, Harvard University |
| 1979 | Elected to the chair of "Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires", Collège de France, Paris |
| Professor, Collège de France, Paris | |
| 2002-2004 | Director, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) at ULP, Strasbourg |
Dr. Krishna NATHAN
Vice-president storage systems development, IBM Corporation, New York
| 1983-1987 | Systems Engineer on the Shuttle Imaging Radar - B (SIR-B), JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, NASA |
| 1990 | Ph.D. in Engineering (Electrical Sciences) in the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems, |
| Division of Engineering | |
| 1992-1997 | Researcher, Manager, Handwriting Algorithms |
| 1997-1999 | Senior Manager, Consumer Devices |
| 1999-2001 | Director, Consumer Voice Systems, head of IBM s consumer speech effort |
| 2001-2002 | Executive Assistant to the Vice-Chairman of the Board, IBM Corporate Headquaters |
| since 2002 | Director, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory |
| since 2004 | Vice-president Services and Director, Zurich Research Laboratory |
| since 2006 | Vice-president Technology, IBM |
Dr. Josef Martin PENNINGER
Wissenschaftlicher Direktor, Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie GmbH, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
| 1994-2003 | Associate Scientist, The Ontario Cancer Institute, Dept. Of Molecular and Cellular Biology, |
| Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto | |
| since 1998 | Associate Professor (Dozent), Department of Experimental and General Pathology, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2002-2004 | Full Professor, Departments of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada |
| since 2002 | Scientific and Administrative Director, IMBA, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of |
| Sciences, Vienna, Austria | |
| since 2004 | Adjunct Full Professor, Departments of Immunology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Honorary Professor of Genetics, University of Vienna, Austria | |
| Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing |
Dr. Jaswant SINGH
Former Minister of External Affairs; Member, Parliament of India, New Delhi
| He is an Indian politician. He is from the Indian State of Rajasthan and was an officer in the Indian Army in the 1960's. He served as Finance minister in the short-lived government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996. After Vajpayee became Prime Minister again two years later, he became Minister for External Affairs of India, serving from 1998 until 2002. Responsible for foreign policy, he dealt with high tensions between India and Pakistan. In 2002 he became Finance Minister again, switching posts with Yashwant Sinha. He served as Finance Minister until the defeat of the Vajpayee government in 2004 and was instrumental in defining and pushing through the market-friendly reforms of the government. Known for his moderate political views, he is a self-described liberal democrat even though the Bharatiya Janata Party is often described as a right-wing nationalist organization. Currently he is the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. |
Dr. h.c. Wolfgang SCHÜRER
Verwaltungsratspräsident und Delegierter, MS Management Service AG, St. Gallen
| Studium der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften an der Universität St. Gallen | |
| Gründer der Internationalen Managementgespräche an der Universität St. Gallen | |
| Verwaltungsratspräsident und Delegierter der MS Management Service AG, St. Gallen (Internationale Beratung mit den Schwerpunkten Strategie, Risiko- und Issue-Management sowie Regulatory Affairs) |
