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	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Glänzel Katholieke Universiteit (K.U.) Leuven Wolfgang Glänzel is at K.U.Leuven since 2002. He is Director of Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) of the Flemish government and Professor at K.U. Leuven. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Research Organisation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Wolfgang Glänzel is skilled mathematician. He holds a doctorate in mathematics from the Eötvös University in Budapest (1984) and a PhD in Science Studies from Leiden University (1997). Wolfgang Glänzel worked at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1980 and 2001. Wolfgang Glänzel is Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was awarded the Derek de Solla Price Medal "for outstanding contributions to quantitative studies of science" in 1999. Personal websites: http://econ.kuleuven.be/msi/members/glanzel.htm http://www.ecoom.be/index.php?id=65
	Prof. Dr. Koenraad Debackere Katholieke Universiteit (K.U.) Leuven Koenraad Debackere has been with K.U. Leuven since 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. in Management with an ICM-fellowship at the University of Gent after stays as an ICM-fellow and an ICRMOT research assistant at MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a Fulbright-Hays post-doctoral fellow at MIT in 1991-1992. In 1995 he became professor at K.U. Leuven. His research has focused on the area of technology and innovation management and policy, the development of indicators for measuring the linkage between science and technology, the design and use of bibliometric indicators for science policy purposes and the role of entrepreneurial universities in economic development. He is coordinator of the Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM)of the Flemish government. He is also actively engaged in technology transfer activity as managing director of K.U. Leuven Research & Development and Chairman of the Gemma Frisius Fonds (the venture fund) of the K.U.Leuven. Personal websites: http://econ.kuleuven.be/msi/members/debackere.htm http://www.ecoom.be/index.php?id=64
	Prof. Dr. Stefan Hornbostel iFQ ; Humboldt-Universität (HU) zu Berlin Stefan Hornbostel (Director of the iFQ) studied Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen. He did his PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin. After his studies, he worked at the Universities of Kassel, Cologne, Jena and Dortmund, as well as at the Center of Higher Education Developement (CHE – Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung). Stefan Hornbostel is Professor at the Department of Social Sciences (Science Studies) at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Personal website: http://www.research-information.de/Mitarbeiter/mit_horn.asp
	Dr. Sybille Hinze iFQ Sybille Hinze (Deputy Director iFQ) graduated in ‘Management of Science’ from Humboldt-University. From 1990 to 1997 she worked as a research fellow at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Fraunhofer ISI). In 1997, she got her PhD from Leiden University, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), the Netherlands. From 1997-1999 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Evaluation and Policy Project, Australian National University, Canberra. From 1999 to 2008 she held a senior researcher position at Fraunhofer ISI and from 2006 to 2008 she was deputy head of the competence centre “Policy and Regions”. From March 2005 to August 2006 she was seconded to the European Commission, DG Research, Unit Programming, Monitoring, and Evaluation. Sybille Hinze joined the iFQ in August 2008. Personal website: http://www.research-information.de/Mitarbeiter/mit_hinze.asp
	Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Juan Gorraiz studied physics at the University of Madrid and at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his Doctor’s degree. He is Head of the Document Delivery Services of the Central Library for Physics and of the Bibliometrics Department of the Library and Archive Services, University of Vienna. He is working on bibliometric analysis and studies since 1992 and is furthermore teaching at the university course „Library and Information Studies“. Organizer and programme chair of the „10th International Conference on Science & Technical Indicators“ 2008 in Vienna. Personal website: http://bibliometrie.univie.ac.at/team/
	Dr. Christian Gumpenberger, MSc University of Vienna Christian Gumpenberger has a Doctor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the Danube University Krems. He was Head of the Department of Public Services and Reference Librarians at the University Library of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Head of the Novartis Knowledge Center Vienna as well as Global Project Manager for the Novartis Institutional Repository Project & Open Access Champion at Novartis, and also ran his own information consultancy business focussing on project management in the field of new trends in scholarly communication, especially Open Access. He is currently a member of the Bibliometrics Department of the Library and Archive Services, University of Vienna, coordinator of the Council of Austrian University Libraries and also in charge of the European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss) administration.

esss Programme Committee
The annual organization of esss will be coordinated by a local Programme Committee.

In  2012 the esss Steering Committee will also serve the Programme Committee’s tasks.