Mag. Dr. phil. Rupert PICHLER Head, Department III/I 2 - Research and Technology Funding, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Vienna

	Studies in modern and economic history at the Universities of Innsbruck and Thübingen
	Post graduate terms at Milan and the University of Minnesota
since 1996	Officer at the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

Member of several EU committees on research policy issues
Member of several project evaluation panels and of the board of the Austrian Science Fund

M.Stampfer/R. Pichler/R. Hofer: The Making of Research Funding in Austria. Transition Politics and Institutional Development, 1945-2005, In: Science and Public Policy 37(2010), 765-780
R. Pichler/E. Strimitzer: Ausgliederungen als Instrument eines modernen Verwaltungsmanagements: Grundlagen, Probleme, Praxis, in: E. Strimitzer et al. (eds.), Handbuch des modernen Verwaltungsmanagements, Wien: Linde 2013, 99-135

08: European strategies for international research cooperation