Board
The core of the Austrian Space Forum is comprised of alumni of the International Space University (ISU) and the Space Generation Advisory Council. They are professionally involved in various national and international space related activities.
President: Mag. Gernot Grömer, MScVice-president: Mag. Alexander Souck, MLaw, MSS
Secretary: DI Norbert Frischauf, MEng
Dep. Secretary: Willibald Stumptner
Chief Financial Officer: Bettina Frischauf
Vice-Financial Officer: Dr. Rudolf Albrecht
Controlling: Manfred Hettmer, Maria Pflug-Hofmayr
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Mag. Gernot Grömer, MSc. PresidentResponsibilites: external represenation, Corporate Identity, coordination ÖWF office Innsbruck, project managerCareer: Born 1975, masters degree in astronomy (Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck), International Space University summer school (Houston/Texas), teaching assistent at the ISU summer school (Cleveland/Ohio). Member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (Board of Mentors). Various research sojourns in Italy, USA and Chile. Outreach coordinator of the european lunar mission LunarSat, simulation of a crewed expedition on Mars in Utah. Flight Crew 37th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign. Programme Management Group AustroMars and PolAres. Teaches and does research at the Univ. Innsbruck. gernotgroemeroewforg |
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Mag. Alexander Soucek, MLaw, MSS, Vice-President
Responsiblities: Outreach, legal issues, project archive, project manager Career: Born 1978, studied law at the Paris Lodron University, Salzburg, master of space studies at the International Space University in Strassbourg/France. Research activities in the field of space law and space policy at the Space Policy Institute, George Washington University, Washington D.C., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations (Vienna), the German Space Operations Center (Darmstadt, Germany); member of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), project manager of austrias largest space contest "spacecity salzburg". Flight Crew 37th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign. At present working for the European Space Agency in the field of Earth Observation Ground Segment in Frascati (Italy). alexandersoucekoewforg |
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Norbert Frischauf, MEng., SecretaryResponsibilites: external representation, Corporate Identity, coordination ÖWF office Vienna, project managerCareer: Born 1968, holds a master of engineering degree from the Technical University Vienna; International Space University summer school (Houston/Texas). Member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (Board of Mentors). Research activities at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Geneva/Switzerland), project manager of various ÖWF-events (e.g. the Science Fiction Week). System engineer of the european LunarSat mission and future studies and -technologies at the European Space Technology Centre of the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. High-technology consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton in Europe. 2007 - 2009 Executive Officer of Qasar Technologies, Vienna. Since 2009 Joint Research Center Institute for Energy of the European Commission in Petten, Netherlands. norbertfrischaufoewforg |
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Willibald Stumptner, Vice-SecretaryResponsibilites: external representation, project managerCareer: Born 1967 in Graz; high school Lichtenfels in Graz; student of technical physics at the technical university in Graz, and meteorology and geophysics at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz; Space Camp 1991; International Space University (1995); stay abroad ath the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble; 6 years at the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz (atmospheres of planets and astro biology, especially Mars and Titan) ; At present he is working as Technical Author for Roche Diagnostics in the fields of validation, project- and quality-management. willibaldstumptneroewforg |
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Bettina Frischauf, Chief Financial OfficerResponsibilites: financial affairs, member services, project managerCareer: Born 1967, vocational college for economy in Vienna, civil servant in the austrian federal ministry of defense, military academy. Editorial staff of the Magazine of the Austrian Armed Forces. During a perennial sojourn in the Netherlands she acted as secretary of the association of the austrians in the Netherlands. Mother of two children. Currently working in the administration of the Strategic Leadership Course at the austrian federal ministry of defense, military academy. bettinafrischaufoewforg |
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Dr. Rudolf Albrecht, Vice-Chief Financial OfficerResponsibilites: Liason international organizations, outreachCareer: Born 1946 in Vienna, studied astronomy and physics at the University of Vienna (doctorate 1970), until 1972 Postdoc at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Assistant professor at the Univ. Observatory in Vienna until 1981. 1981 to 1984 Head of the scientific data handling at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1984 to 2008 at ESA / ESO Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility in Munich (from 2004 as head). Intense public outreach. More than 100 refereed publications. Other interests: skydiving (multiple austrian champion), ballooning, marathon. rudolfalbrechtoewforg |
Events (german)
Im oberösterreichischen Stift Schlierbach lief dieser Tage die
Landesausstellung rund um das Thema Ernährung und Genuss
an. Mit dabei: Das ÖWF mit Exponaten von Raumfahrtnahrung
des diesjährigen Polarstern-Preisträgers, Michael Köberl. "Im
Ausstellungskatalog gibt es neben einer detaillierten
Beschreibung der Exponate eine Hintergrundartikel zum Thema
Raumfahrt und Ernährung" freut sich ÖWF Obmann Mag.
Gernot Grömer, "aufgrund eines Kontaktes bei der "Der Weg ins
All"-Ausstellung im Stift St. Florian bei Linz konnten wir
diesen etwas ungewöhnlichen Zugang zum Thema Genuss
vermitteln". Einmal eine "etwas andere" Weise, das Thema
Weltraum schmackhaft zu machen!
Vortrag von Mag. Gernot E. Grömer, Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik der Universität Innsbruck
Im Rahmen von Linz09 und des Internationalen Jahrs der Astronomie.
Johannes Keplers Wohnhaus
Rathausgasse 5, 1. Stock, 4020 Linz
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Mit der Veranstaltungsreihe ,,Der Himmel verkündet es..." schließt sich das Stift der Benediktiner in Melk, selbst Teil des UNESCO Weltkulturerbes der internationalen Schar der Gratulanten zum Jahr der Astronomie an und beleuchtet ausgewählte Themen von astronomiegeschichtlichem Interesse.
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Auf der heurigen Innsbrucker Herbstmesse, die erstmals an fünf
Tagen, vom 07.10 bis 11.10.2009, stattfindet, wird auch das ÖWF
mit einer Sonderausstellung zum Thema Weltraum vertreten
sein. Für das dort geplante umfangreiche Programm suchen wir
ab sofort nach freiwilligen Helfern.
Interessierte melden sich bitte bei GernotGroemeroewforg
Programm:
Eröffnung am 31. August um 19:30
Die Eröffnung findet in der Anwesenheit der Ausstellungspartner statt:
- Österreichisches Weltraum Forum
- Institut für Astronomie der Universität Wien
- Berufsvereinigung der Bildenden Künstler Österreichs
- Linzer Hobbyastronomische Gesellschaft
Anmeldung bis 01.07.2009 unter centeraecat, Kennwort: Sternstaub erbeten
Weltraumschwerpunkt 31. August - 4. September
Sternenklar - Sternennacht! 03. September
Ort
Ars Electronica Center
Hauptstrasse 2, A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43.732.7272.0
E-Mail: centeraecat
www.aec.at/center
