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institute news 28 options + winter 2014/2015 www.iiasa.ac.at news at iiasa IIASA is launching a second fundraising campaign for a Peter E. de  Jánosi Postdoctoral Fellowship to honor the substantial contributions made by de  Jánosi in 1990–1996 as IIASA Director, in 1987–1990 as council member, and in 1976–1978 as program leader. With the help of its alumni network, IIASA is aiming to raise US$1 million to fund the annual award of the postdoctoral fellowship for the next 10 years. The annual stipend envisaged for each fellow is about US$65,000 (~ €50,000) over two years. It is intended that the fellows will carry forward de Jánosi’s deep interest in applying interdisciplinary analyses to large-scale public policy and management problems, particularly through integration of the social sciences into IIASA’s work. Postdoctoral research scholarships at IIASA carry special recognition both within and outside the Institute, with IIASA’s multidisciplinary approach to real-world problems resulting in a lively and challenging postdoctoral environment. Postdocs have daily access to scientific staff across the Institute who help them approach problems from different angles, develop their professional skills, and provide research advice. IIASA is thus a particularly good proving ground for postdocs considering a career in the policy advisory sphere. With their contributions, alumni will help ensure that this memorial to de  Jánosi and his role at IIASA will continue for many years into the future. There will be a permanent plaque at Schloss Laxenburg honoring de  Jánosi and listing the Peter E. de  Jánosi fellows. Read more on de Jánosi’s contributions to IIASA at www.iiasa.ac.at/dejanosi. KP Peter E. de Jánosi Postdoctoral Fellowship campaign donald saari was appointed as Council Chair at the biannual meeting of the IIASA Council in June 2014, effective from 11  November 2014. Saari, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine, succeeds Peter Lemke. Saari is a member of the US  National Academy of Sciences and Chair of the US National Member Organization Committee for IIASA. His research interests include dynamical systems and their application to the physical  and social sciences. alExEi gvishiani was appointed as Council Vice-Chair at the same meeting, succeeding Saari. Gvishiani, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is Director of the Geophysical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, and specializes in mathematical geophysics. Saari and Gvishiani will serve in their new posts through December 2018. ElEna rovEnskaya has been appointed as Program Director of the Advanced Systems Analysis Program at IIASA. A participant in the 2005 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program, Rovenskaya is also a Research Scholar at the Optimal Control Department of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her scientific interests lie in the fields of theory of optimal control, ill-posed problems, and economic–environmental modeling. gEoff clarkE has been appointed Senior Science Officer within the IIASA Directorate. A former researcher at IIASA’s Australian National Member Organization, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clarke specializes in strategic, operational and change management within complex, multidisciplinary research environments. KP New appointments at IIASA Elena Rovenskaya Geoff ClarkeDonald Saari Alexei Gvishiani