Poster Session Awards at ARIT in New York City
The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Poster Awards were presented by Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch during the 2019 Austrian Research and Innovation Talk (ARIT) in New York City on September 14, 2019. ARIT is hosted annually by the Office of Science and Technology Austria – OSTA with the key goal to connect Austrian scientists based in North America with their peers, as well as with the Austrian STI landscape. It is one of the largest professional gatherings of Austrians in the United States.
The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation awarded three entries of the ARIT 2019 Poster Session; the awards were presented to the recipients by the Foundation’s President, Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch. The three winning posters were by Nikolaus Hammler ("Sub-Nyquist Receiver for Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers"), Magdalena Siller (“Dissection of intestinal immune pathways that contribute to food allergies”)< and Eva Fast ("Identification of endogenously activated long-term hematopoietic stem cells").
From Left: Hannelore Veit (ORF Washington Bureau Chief), Ellen Zechner (Vice President, Austrian Science Fund), Wolfgang Petritsch (President, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation), Eva Fast (awardee), Simone Poetscher (Director of Programs and Operations, OSTA Washington).
Photo: David Keith
From Left: Hannelore Veit (ORF Washington Bureau Chief), Ellen Zechner (Vice President, Austrian Science Fund), Wolfgang Petritsch (President, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation), Nikolaus Hammler (awardee), Simone Poetscher (Director of Programs and Operations, OSTA Washington).
Photo: David Keith
From Left: Hannelore Veit (ORF Washington Bureau Chief), Ellen Zechner (Vice President, Austrian Science Fund), Wolfgang Petritsch (President, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation), Magdalena Siller (awardee), Simone Poetscher (Director of Programs and Operations, OSTA Washington).
Photo: David Keith