MANAGING DIRECTORS - PARTNER
Waltraut Hoheneder, Principal,
(Architecture, Design, Art, Management)
Barbara Imhof, Principal and Founder,
(Space Architecture /Architecture, Design, Management)
LIQUIFER FOUNDERS
Barbara Imhof
Susmita Mohanty, Principal and Founder,
(Space Architecture and Design, Business Development)
Extended team
Further we would like to thank all our team members who worked/have been working with us since 2003
Kjell Herrmann since 2010
Anna Stürzenbecher, 2009
Anna Balint, 2005
Irmgard Derschmidt, 2004
Melanie Klähn, 2005
Barbara Kolb, 2005
Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, 2003/4
Sonia Leimer, 2007
Paul Mayr, 2004
Kürsad Özdemir, 2003/4
Georg Pamperl. 2004
Anna Stürzenbecher, since 2008
René Waclavicek, since 2005
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Philipp Träxler, 2003
Waltraut Hoheneder
Expertise
Architecture, Building Construction, Project Management, Business Development, Interdisciplinary Research
Education
1984 Degree in Economics, University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
1986 -1991 Ceramic Design, Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
1998 Degree in Architecture, Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Experience
2005 - present
Partner + Principal, LIQUIFER, [Space] Architecture & Design firm, www.liquifer.at
2008
Assistant professor, Faculty of Architecture, Insttiute for Architecture and Design, Institute of Design and Building Construction, Technical University (TU) - Vienna
2005 - present
Teaching Assignment to architect Prof. Helmut Richter, Institute of Design and Building Construction, Technical University (TU) - Vienna
Teaching Assignment to architect
Prof. Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Abteilung Raumgestaltung und Entwerfen, Technical University (TU) - Vienna
2000 -2003 Design Architect, Project Architect, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna, Austria
1998 - 2000 Partner of Susanne Zottl
BARBARA IMHOF
Expertise
Architecture, Building Construction, Project Management, Business Development,
Interdisciplinary Research
Education
2006 PHD in Architecture "An Architectural Approach To The Design Of A Long Duration Human Space Mission - Case Study: Human Mission to Mars"
1997 Master of Space Studies, International Space University, Strasbourg, France
1996 Degree in Architecture, Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria (studio Wolf. D. Prix)
1995 Southern Californian Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), Los Angeles, USA (studio: Aron Betsky, Wolf D. Prix)
1993 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK (unit Jeremy Till)
Experience Architecture, Design and Research
2003 - present
Co-Founder + Principal, LIQUIFER, [Space] Architecture & Design firm,
www.liquifer.at
1997 - 2003
Co-Founder + Principal, ESCAPE*spHERE, Architecture firm, www.escapesphere.at
1996-1997
Architect, BIOPLEX Project, NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston
- External reviewer in the studies of a two-month isolation test at NASA
JSC
- NASA JSC: Participated
in the physiological training for the parabolic flights; volunteered as
a test subject for
ongoing Mir-Shuttle docking study and a 5-week resistance
exercise regime study for long duration stays on the
new International Space Station (ISS).
Experience Teaching Space/Architecture, Design and Research
2007 - 2010
Supervisor for the PHD studio at Chalmers University
Institute for Design for Sustainable Development , Gothenburg, Sweden
Summer term 2007
consultant to Greg Lynn studio for a SPACE STATION (theme: "horizon and the section") and coordination for the visit of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut training Centre, Moscow, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Winter term 2007
1-week Workshop at the Architecture School in Yazd, Iran
Winter term 2005/06
Assistant Professor, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Architecture, bof! benutzeroberflaeche, Prof. Gregor Eichinger; Research and teaching unit in [space]architecture "EarthHab-SpaceHab" with the astronaut client Claude Nicolllier
Sept. 1998 - Oct. 2006
Assistant Professor to architect Prof. Helmut Richter, Institute
of Design and Building Construction, Technical University (TU) - Vienna
SUSMITA MOHANTY
Expertise
Electrical Engineering, Industrial Design, Project Management, Business
Development, Interdisciplinary Research
Education
2006- present Phd candidate at Chalmers University Sweden
1997 Master of Space Studies, International Space University (ISU), France
1996 Master of Design, Industrial Design, National Institute of Design, India
1993 Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Gujarat University, India
Achievements
2007
Elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics [IAA]
2005
International Achievement Award by Women in Aerospace, Washington, USA
2004
Nomination for the 2004 MIT TR100 Awards - World’s Top 100 Young Innovators
Experience
2003
Co-Founder & Principal, LIQUIFER, [Space] Architecture & Design firm, Vienna
2007-present
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Earth to Orbit, Launch Service for Commercial Satellites, Mumbai, India
2001-2008
Co-Founder & Managing Director, MOONFRONT, Aerospace Consultancy, San Francisco, www.moonfront.com
1998-2000
Manager, Business Development, The Boeing Company, International Space
Station (ISS) Program, California
1996-1997
Engineer+Designer, ISS & Shuttle-Mir Projects, Flight Crew Support
Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston
- External reviewer in the studies of a two-month isolation test at NASA
JSC
- NASA JSC: Participated
in the physiological training for the parabolic flights; volunteered as
a test subject for
ongoing Mir-Shuttle docking study and a 5-week resistance
exercise regime study for long duration stays on the
new International Space Station (ISS).
NASA: Trained for parabolic
flights (zero-gravity simulation). Volunteered as a test subject for Shuttle-Mir
docking simulation and for determining resistance exercise regimes for
long duration astronauts.
Mars Society:
Selected as a crewmember for missions at Mars analog desert stations.
Also been a member of the crew that spent a night on the World War-II
submarine USS Pampanito – submarines are perfect space habitat analogs.
1998-present
Adjunct faculty and various invited lectures