Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board met on September 28 and 29 with the Rectorate and the Chairmen of the Senate and the Chairwomen of the University Council. Strategic questions relating to the further development of the University of Vienna in research, teaching and activities in society were discussed.
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Gerhard Mayr (Chairman Emeritus of UCB S.A., former Executive VP of Eli Lilly & Company), Sari Lindblom (Vice-Rector, Professor of Higher Education, University of Helsinki), Martin Hetzer (Vice President & Chief Science Officer, Professor, Salk Institute), Patti Valkenburg (Professor of Media, Youth and Society, University of Amsterdam), Volker Mehrmann (Professor, Institute of Mathematics, TU Berlin), Lorraine Daston (former Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Antje Boetius (Professor of Geomicrobiology, University of Bremen), Jean-Robert Tyran (Vice-Rector Research and International Affairs, Heinz Engl (Rector), Sybille Krämer (Professor of Philosophy, FU Berlin), Regina Hitzenberger (Vice-Rector Infrastructure), Eva Nowotny (Chair of University Board), Michael Viktor Schwarz (Chair of Senate), Ronald Maier (Vice-Rector Digitalisation and Knowledge Transfer), Christa Schnabl (Vice-Rector Educational Affairds), Patrick Haggard (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)
In particular, the Austrian Excellence Initiative, international reputation management, the tenure track procedure and the planned Moritz Schlick postdoc program were discussed.
The coordinators of the six Clusters of Excellence submitted to the Austrian Science Fund FWF by the University of Vienna presented their draft proposals and received multidisciplinary feedback from high-ranking scientists for further elaboration of the proposals.
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Professor Tom Higham presented the Cluster of Excellence proposal “Origins of Life”.
At the end of the meeting, professors Michael Wagner, Andreas Richter, Gerhard Ecker, Ingeborg Lang and Christa Schleper led the participants through the new biology building of the University of Vienna and gave insights into state-of-the-art research and teaching laboratories.
The Unit for Quality Assurance, represented by the head Michael Hofer, consults with the scientific advisory board on strategic questions of quality assurance.
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The new biology building of the University of Vienna
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