Austrian Scientists & Scholars
in North America

Category: Other

Call for Poster Abstracts: ASciNA – AMPF Poster Session October 2025

Contesting the far right

Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift.

Lisa Kaltenegger receives the 2024 Polar Star Award

Berta Karlik Fellowship –  High Level Brain Circulation Worldwide

The Austrian Academy of Sciences will award up to 3 Berta Karlik Followships over the next three years in memory of Berta Karlik and recognition of her outstanding scientific performance and success. Berta Karlik as first female member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences paved the way for many renowned female researches to come – as the fellowship awarded in her name shall do in the future for female researchers in the field of STEM research.