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, MSc Vice-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
Gernot Grömer, MSc., president
Responsibilites: external represenation, Corporate Identity, coordination ÖWF office Innsbruck, project manager Career: 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
Alexander Soucek, MLaw, MSS, vice-president
Responsiblities: Outreach, legal issues, 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
Norbert Frischauf, MEng., secretary
Responsibilites: external representation, Corporate Identity, coordination ÖWF office Vienna, project manager Career: 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
Willibald Stumptner, vice secretary
Responsibilites: external representation, project manager Career: 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
Bettina Frischauf, Chief Financial Officer
Responsibilites: financial affairs, member services, project manager Career: 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.
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Dr. Rudolf Albrecht, deputy chief financial officer
Responsibilites: Liason international organizations, outreach Career: 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
Controller: MMag. Michaela Laucher, Michael Taraba, BSc
PolAres Schedule Update
30. November 2010: Suit Core Completion
Core complete - Aouda's hardware will be frozen at this point to allow a development of a small series. However, minor adjustments to the OBDH are still possible, mainly at the software side.
