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Gerd Mueller
new chair

of the Commission for Research Integrity

New chair of the Commission for Research Integrity

07.01.2019

Since the beginning of the year Gerd Müller, former professor at the University of Würzburg as well as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research in Würzburg, is chair of the Commission for Research Integrity of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (OeAWI).

 

Gerd Müller succeeds Stephan Rixen, who served as a Member of the Commission from June 2012 to September 2015 and held the Chair from October 2015 to December 2018. During his tenure as chair, more than 80 requests for investigation of cases of (alleged) research misconduct were referred to the OeAWI. Stephan Rixen, professor at the Faculty of Law, Business Administration and Economics at the University of Bayreuth (Germany), was particularly committed to preventive actions, especially for the further development of the guidelines of Good Scientific Practice and the integration of the Guidelines into day-to-day research.

 

The new chair of the Commission, Gerd Müller, has been a member of the Commission since 2015 and is responsible for the field of Natural and Technical Sciences. Gerd Müller obtained his PhD in Mineralogy/Crystallography at the TH Karlsruhe. Subsequently, he worked for 13 years in various functions for the Schott AG. Gerd Müller then became Professor at the TH Darmstadt and later at the University of Würzburg. In Wuerzburg he simultaneously held the position of Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research and, for a number of years, also of the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability in Darmstadt. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and member of the Collegium Materials Science of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

 

Gerd Müller retired in 2006. Since 2007, he is a member of the Comité Carnot of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Paris, and since 2012 of the Conseil d’Administration and the Comité Scientifique of the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, Paris.

 

The OeAWI thanks Stephan Rixen for the professionalism and his great commitment with which he led the commission, as well as Gerd Müller for taking over the commission’s chair.

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Law

Prof.
Regina E. Aebi-Müller

Deputy Chair of the Commission

Faculty of Law, University of Lucerne – Switzerland Regina E. Aebi-Müller graduated in law from the University of Bern and was admitted to the bar of the Canton of Bern in 1997. This was followed by a doctorate with a focus on family and inheritance law. In 2005, she completed her habilitation on the system of the protection of personality in civil law. Since the same year, she has been a full professor of private law and comparative private law at the University of Lucerne. Her research focuses on medical law, family law, the law of persons (capacity to act, protection of personality, law of associations and foundations) and the law of succession. She has authored numerous publications, partly in the context of externally funded research projects, and is a member of national and international professional societies. Since 2016, she has been co-editor of the renowned «Berner Kommentar». Regina E. Aebi-Müller has been a member of the Central Ethics Committee of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences since June 2017 and a member of the Expert Committee of Alzheimer Switzerland since 2019. She was a Research Councillor at the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2021 and Vice-President of this division from 2017 to 2021. She was also a member and Vice President of the Commission for Scientific Integrity of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2017 to 2021. Since 2020, Regina E. Aebi-Müller has been Prorector for Personnel and Professorships at the University of Lucerne and, a spart of that position, President of the University Equal Opportunities Commission. Since 2011, she has been an investigator in cases of sexual harassment. From 2007 to 2011, she was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Lucerne.
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FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Haslinger-Baumann

FH Campus Wien

 

Since 2022, Vice Rector for Research and Development and member of the executive board of FH Campus Wien. Member of the ethics commission of FH Campus Wien.


Between 2014 and 2022, she developed, implemented and managed the Competence Center for Applied Nursing Research at FH Campus Wien, and taught in the Department for Applied Nursing Research. She developed the strategic direction of the research center and conceptualized and led application-focused and interdisciplinary
projects in national and international contexts. Her research focuses are in the fields of Active and Assisted Living, Digitalization in health and nursing, as well as Theory-Practice-Transfer. From 1998 to 2013, she was part of the research institute of the Vienna Red Cross (which she led for 1.5 years) where she established nursing research with a focus on evidence-based nursing in mobile and inpatient care.


Haslinger-Baumann studied Philosophy with a focus on ethics as well as Political Science with a focus on social policy, both at the University of Vienna. She holds a Doctorate in Nursing Science with a focus on research applications from UMIT – Private University for health sciences, medical informatics and technology in Hall, Tyrol.


Many years of experience as certified health- and nursing professional in Austria (Vienna) and abroad (Nepal, India, Columbia, Ecuador)


Married,
three children.

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