Heinz Fassmann

Heinz Fassmann is President of the Austrian Academy of Science. He has been serving as Austrian Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research between January 2020 to December 2021 and served in the same capacity from December 2017 to June 2019. He was a professor at the TU München and University of Vienna and also Vice-Rector at the University of Vienna. He is a permanent member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academia Europaea and his achievements have been recognized with a number of awards.