Dr. Rudolf Albrecht is new board member of the Austrian Space Forum

14. February 2009

Dr. Rudolf Albrecht

During the board workshop on February, 14./15., Dr. Rudolf Albrecht was coopted as a new board member of the Austrian Space Forum. Born in 1946 in Vienna, he became a professional astronomer ...

e.g. at the University of Vienna and the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. Since the beginning of the Hubble Space Telescope, Dr. Albrecht has been working on the conception of the scientific data processing. Later he took the leadership of the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility in Munich. In addition to his academic career with over 100 refereed publications, he is a passionate parachutists, marathon runner, and above all a renowed balloonist.

"I have decided to engage myself in the ÖWF," says Rudolf Albrecht w.r.t. to the co-optation, "because I know how important and how useful competently organized groups are, especially for young people. Their special interests in school and education are covered insufficiently, particularly when it comes to astronomy and astronautics. "

Dr. Albrecht is following Dr. Gudrun Weinwurm as Vice-Chief Financial Officer.