We would like to say thank you – for your support, your interest and your appreciation during the last weeks! Therefore, we do have a special surprise for all friends of the Science Ball in our online-ticket shop: a 5% discount on a limited number of 200 regular tickets as well as on table reservations in the main and adjoining ball rooms, if ordered until January 6. Representing all our team members, supporters and ball ambassadors, we wish you a merry Christmas, happy holidays and a happy New Year with our group portrait of ball ambassadors, shot by Sabine Hauswirth on November 29, 2016 on the grand ball room balcony at Vienna’s town hall, with a view on Votivkirche!

The ball ambassadors (from left to right): archaeologist and Austria’s Scientist of the Year Wolfgang Neubauer (University of Vienna), photonics-physicist Karl Unterrainer (TU Vienna), science councillor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, computer scientist and Dean Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (University of Vienna), organizer of the ball Oliver Lehmann, pharmacist Sabine Glasl-Tazreiter (University of Vienna), social anthropologist and fashion curator Tereza Kuldova (University Oslo), molecular and systems biologist Giulio Superti-Furga (Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences), Oliver Holle (Speedinvest); dancing couple of Tanzschule Chris / Photo: Sabine Hauswirth