As a PR-consultant for architects I spend plenty of time visiting architecture – from construction sites to city developing areas, from modern single houses to old urban centers. Of course I also spent time in offices, in those from my clients as well as in my own. But as offices are not my favourite „place of action“ I chose pictures of my outdoor work.

In my work - in my songs and in my daily work as a coach and supervisor - the social aspect is always most significant. One of my personel principles is "Work may - better must - also give pleasure". You will find more information on my website: www.9dlinger.at

Treating children is challenging and rewarding to the same extent. My research into resorbable implants for the treatment of fractures in children will make a second operation unnecessary to remove the implant. This, I hope, will reduce the number of operations carried out on children.

Even as a little girl I was fascinated by powerful natural phenomena, such as lightning with its incredible energy and heavy rockets that could fly into space. Through my studies in theoretical and experimental physics at the University of Innsbruck and various research stays I was able to figure so many secrets out. And yet there is still so much to explore – these days also on an “interdisciplinary” level – in close collaboration with chemists, biologists and medical people.
Both as a manager of my small company rho-BeSt coating and as a scientific director of the Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise DiaLife, I enjoy the diverse spectra of my work. I am particularly happy about having attracted the interest of my children in my work – the balanced mix of work and leisure – and to never have lost my curiosity.

I am heading the research group Molecular Plant Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. I am most interested in the development of plant-based expression systems that allow the rapid generation of highly efficient recombinant therapeutic proteins.

During my few years of professional training and work, I have had the chance to visit several amazing places in and out of Austria to study. I had the best time in San Diego, California, working at the Department of Cardiology at the University of California School of Medicine. Researching for my PhD, I am currently living in the capital of the Alps, Innsbruck, where I have the chance to work on a tissue engineering and stem cell project. DiaLife involves many inter- national partners from several disciplines, so I am learning a lot as regards interaction, flexibility and different ways of doing research. I am curious where the future will take me. Anyhow, I will be there. With open arms and open eyes.

Trained as marine biologist I was used to work with bacterial symbionts and worms from the deep sea. As part of the OCUVAC research team I work now with bacterial pathogens which are not unlike the symbionts regarding the mechanism of interaction with the host but very different in the outcome. The development of a vaccine preventing trachoma is a challenging task and a very long road, but the goal of reducing avoidable blindness in millions of people – especially in children – is by all means worth the effort. To implement sustainable improvements to eye care systems we cooperate closely with ophthalmologists from developing countries. In doing so, we are currently establishing a research cooperation with Ethiopian scientists, which will soon take us to Ethiopia and the beautiful city of Jimma (from where coffee originates).

As a microbiologist and electron microscopist, I have always been fascinated by intracellular bacteria such as Chla- mydia. Our highly ambitious project goal is to produce a vaccine that relieves the pain for patients suffering from trachoma, which is caused by an infection with these tricky bacteria. Luckily, our team brings multi-skilled talent and experience à la “Oceans Eleven” to the table to get the job done. It’s a worthwhile goal that deserves every effort and we will never give up until we have succeeded.

I work in the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS) at the Vienna University of Technology and head the Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise “CVAST – Center for Visual Analytics Science and Technology”. We inves- tigate computer-supported visual and analytic reasoning methods to support the interactive exploration process to gain new insights into complex information spaces.

Masters student at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart. I have participated in an international study programme at the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg, during which I had the opportunity to go to a foreign country and study at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. Now I have decided to do my Master thesis at the IGB in Stuttgart because the research field of cell systems is very interesting and provides many new possibilities to do more research. It is very fascinating to work in DiaLife because here I can learn a lot about how big projects work and how research groups from different countries are working together. I am looking forward to where the future will take me. Hopefully I can do some more work in the field of cell systems when I have completed my studies.