Christiane Maria Losert-Valiente Kroon

• Planning and implementation of science communication projects in strategic partnerships with the education, art, media, policy and industry sector • Recruitment of fellows of the "Vienna Doctoral Program on Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS)" and the "Vienna Doctoral School in Physics (VDSP)" • Professional and personal development of early stage researchers through university courses, transferable skills training and individual mentoring • Organisation of science events

Research in Fluctuation-driven Population Dynamics

• textbook development in the Higher Education Team - improvement of content and style; • market research; • contender analysis;

• monitoring the media for science, health and environment press coverage and summarising results into a media bulletin; • organising a brainstorm on the media coverage on GM crops; • undertaking a horizon scanning in the area of RNA interference and fish stocks, investigating the suitability as topics for a UK national news press briefing and providing appropriate reports;

• involved in the organisation of the 3rd UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Use of Outer Space July 1999; • engaged in management of the visit of the Secretary General to the UNOV; • organised the stay of the Secretary-General’s entourage;

Stochastic Population Dynamics, astrochemistry, aerosol science

General Relativity, elasticity theory