Land schaf[f]t Wissen / Research[in]g the Region: Leben und Forschen in Niederosterreich / Life and Science in Lower Austria

Front Matter....Pages 1-11
An experiment…....Pages 12-13
Leaving Coming Staying....Pages 14-15
The Brainbox Next Door....Pages 16-19
Research Axis....Pages 20-23
Science institutes in Lower Austria....Pages 24-29
I came across anthropology in forensics....Pages 30-33
I have always been interested in how materials flow....Pages 34-37
I thought Austrian patriotism to be rather strange....Pages 38-41
The pleasure of finding theories where you think there aren’t any left....Pages 42-45
I can still use the experience I got from acting today....Pages 46-49
Research to hear the grass grow by!....Pages 50-53
Social affairs and economics cannot contradict one another....Pages 54-57
I want the rooms to breathe....Pages 58-61
To me, rivers are much more than just ecosystems....Pages 62-65
Teacher and researcher — I led a double life for many years....Pages 66-69
I am interested whether the Bible has something to say about tattoos....Pages 70-73
I thought to myself: geography and physics — that could be fun....Pages 74-77
I had always really wanted to be a farmer....Pages 78-81
I love to figure out cuneiform texts....Pages 82-85
We are made up of stardust, literally....Pages 86-89
I am deeply rooted in my work....Pages 90-93
I have a penchant for marketing food....Pages 94-97
I also look at computers as musical instruments....Pages 98-101
It pays off to look beyond one’s own nose....Pages 102-105
I am a homo politicus with all my heart....Pages 106-109
I love this institution....Pages 110-113
Our center is one of the best in the world!....Pages 114-117
During puberty, I asked myself questions about space and time....Pages 118-121
There is so much art and history in the monastery!....Pages 122-125
We make electrons dance....Pages 126-129
Mathematicians and modelers are needed to solve the questions of humanity....Pages 130-133
I am one of those people who take on challenges....Pages 134-137
Old household remedies contain a lot of knowledge on medicinal plants....Pages 138-141
I find this beauty in mathematical formulas....Pages 142-145
The nuclear incident in Chernobyl was a life-changing event....Pages 146-149
I work directly with patients in radiation therapy....Pages 150-153
I wanted to create something new in dentistry....Pages 154-157
My friends and I played the first generation of computer games....Pages 158-161
I spent half my life at OMV....Pages 162-165
Do you know how wolf translates into Turkish? Kurt....Pages 166-169
I am post-68 Movement, socialized by literature....Pages 170-173
No one can be reduced to his or her genes....Pages 174-177
The University of Applied Sciences was very important to me, personally....Pages 178-181
At that time there was little migration research, but a whole lot of migrants....Pages 182-185
I love to brood over analysis equipment and exploit all resources....Pages 186-189
What I do is make “mental maps”....Pages 190-193
Whether a dog or horse — animals always trusted me....Pages 194-197
To create an institute with world-class ambitions from scratch....Pages 198-201
My work has a lot to do with sugar....Pages 202-205
I took a skull in the catacombs....Pages 206-209
My research work started at the Danube wetlands....Pages 210-213
I prefer the low-temperature glasshouse to the lab....Pages 214-217
I’m simply fascinated by human biology....Pages 218-221
I’m taking a look into the future of our Milky Way....Pages 222-225
Steininger — nomen est omen. Isn’t it?....Pages 226-229
Our motto is: regenerate and not repair....Pages 230-233
I’m fascinated by the subtle cleverness in Karl Kraus’s texts....Pages 234-237
I love geometry....Pages 238-241
Infinite dimensional differential geometry is my true love....Pages 242-245
I also learnt how to make beer, cheese, bread and wine....Pages 246-249
I somehow slid into particle physics....Pages 250-253
It wouldn’t have worked without piano or violin....Pages 254-257
Breaking the barriers — it was very exotic in those days....Pages 258-261
I want to learn scuba diving and become a marine biologist....Pages 262-265
I usually call philosophy “transcendental cloud treading”....Pages 266-269
Education is the well-being of our intellect....Pages 270-273
It is a beautiful science....Pages 274-277
I still like dealing with blown gaskets — but now in humans....Pages 278-281
I already began taking things apart as a young boy, simply out of curiosity....Pages 282-285
My passion for art history was sparked at the cinema....Pages 286-289
20 years of Krems — worth a mention, don’t you think?....Pages 290-293
I was and am a physicist with my heart and soul....Pages 294-297
I will return to research after my job as Academy President is over!....Pages 298-301
Civil law accompanies us our entire lives....Pages 302-305
I have been studying Donatello for 45 years now....Pages 306-309
Time is brain. Every minute counts....Pages 310-313
We refer to this kind of behavior in ants as social vaccination....Pages 314-319
Back Matter....Pages 320-339