In 1970, Vogl was appointed professor in the new program of polymer science and engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

At the beginning of 1983, he accepted the newly created position of Herman F. Mark Chair of Polymer Science at Polytechnic University.

Along with the "feel good" aspect, he made valuable connections with senior scientists, allowing an international exchange of ideas and approaches.

Science, honoris causa, University of Leoben, Austria[32] 1993 Slovak Chemical Society, Bratislava, Slovak Republic,[33][31] 1996 Society of Plastics and Rubber Engineers, Zagreb, Croatia 1999 Austrian Chemical Society, Vienna, Austria[34] 2004 Society of Polymer Science, Japan[35][36] 1971, 2000 Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Department of Polymer Technology 1973 University of Freiburg, Germany, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry[37] 1982 Technical University Dresden, Germany, Department of Chemistry 1984 Wuhan University, Wuhan, China 1984 East China Normal University, Shanghai, China[38] 1996 Monbusho Professor,[39] Kyoto Institute of Technology[40] Early in his scientific career, Otto Vogl showed his interest and commitment to professional organizations.

As a student he joined the Austrian Chemical Society[34] on 15 May 1948 and attended his first national meeting later in the year in Linz, where he heard Giulio Natta as the plenary lecturer.

In the US he joined the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1954, attended his first national meeting (the 125th)[47] there in Kansas City, and presented his first lecture, which was on alkaloids.

At Elliott's initiative and with the support of Jesse Hwa and Otto Vogl, they devised what is now known the grid system of administering the growing division.

In 1967, Vogl had proposed to Chairman-Elect Elliott to establish a carefully planned network of cooperation of POLY with (a) polymer interested Divisions of the ACS.

The committee achieved agreements of cooperation with some European polymer organizations,[61] such as those from Italy, France, Sweden and Germany.

In the Pacific Basin area, the first step for some formal cooperation was the treaty between POLY and the Society of Polymer Science of Japan (Kambara[62] and Vogl) in 1974.

Two joint conferences were held: one adjacent to the ACS meeting in Palm Springs[60] in 1979 (Tsuruta[63] and Bailey[64]) and one in Kyoto (Vogl and Saegusa[65]).

[67] After several years, starting from 1984, devoted to inception, preliminary discussions, and internal approvals from each society, PPF was formally formed in 1987 by three founding organizations: POLY, the Society of Polymer Science (Japan), and the Polymer Division of Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

In 1989, five new members from polymer organizations of Canada, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, and the People's Republic of China were added to the council.

The first major activity of the PPF was the first and very successful Pacific Polymer Conference[71] held in Maui, Hawaii in December 1989.

From his early activities, he was interested in attending and participating in conferences, in local, regional, national, then international symposia.

[77] He was also responsible (with Penczek[citation needed]) for the beginning of the Symposia on Ring-Opening Polymerization, first held in Jablona, Poland.

He acted as secretary for the meetings in Akron 1976; Ghent, Belgium; Jena, Germany;[79] Budafok, Hungary;[80] and Borovice, Bulgaria.

As polymer science was at this point in the 1970s considered a sort of hybrid discipline without the more formal academic consideration provided to classical chemistry programs, there were few if any appropriate textbooks, adding to the task.

In short, Vogl did not believe in offering students brief information and instructing them to “work it out.” Over the years, Vogl's efforts led to the graduation of 25 students at the doctoral level, overall over 100 co-workers, while actively collaborating with numerous visiting scholars and supervising a number of post-doctoral researchers.

In addition, Vogl's academic research group structure was designed such that there were always, in general, a variety of different projects at issue.

Vogl's educational commitment ultimately extended to his tenure at Brooklyn Polytechnic University when appointed to the Mark Chair, (the first endowed name-chair in Polymer Science).

He had cooperation with polymer scientists of Japan (Kyoto,[88] Osaka, Kyushu, Tokyo), China (Beijing,[89] Shanghai, Wuhan), Australia (Brisbane,[90] Melbourne)), Germany (Freiburg,[91] Berlin,[92] Dresden, Jena), Romania (Iasi)), Slovakia (Institute of Polymer Chemistry[93]), Poland (Warsaw, Lodz[94]), Slovak Academy of Sciences, Croatia (Zagreb)[95]) Austria (Graz, Vienna,[30] Leoben[32]) and other countries.

Otto Vogl's fluency in German, English, French and Italian and his knowledge of Japanese, Russian and Hungarian certainly helped to sustain his outreach to the international community[96] in the field of Polymer Sciences[97] Particularly, he succeeds to establish a strong bridge between western and eastern so called socialistic countries, promoting the interaction between their polymer scientists and polymer science organization of particular country.

He wrote a joint paper with some Croatian scientists about polymer science and technology in Croatia, presenting the country and the history, University centers, Institutes and industrial institutes involved in polymer research, their existing facilities and research programs.

Professor Vogl has been affectionately called the roaming ambassador for the Polymer Division of the ACS with special responsibility for East Asia and Australia.

In 1987 he was invited to Australia as a plenary lecturer at the APS Conference held at Phillip Island in Victoria,[105] and he was invited again in 1993 to contribute to the PPF Congress which was held at the Conrad Jupiters Hotel on the Gold Coast near Brisbane,[106] where he was awarded with the first Distinguished Service Award of the Pacific Polymer Federation.

He has collaborated in scientific research with Professor Ken Ghiggino at the University of Melbourne on polymerizable and polymeric UV stabilizers[107] and was on at least on one of their thesis committees.

He saw first-hand the status of Science and Life in China and 1984 he was invited by the Ministry of Education to introduce Polymer Science in Wuhan University (to his lectures came people from as far away as Lanzhou and Urumchi) and East China Normal University (Shanghai).

Subsequently, The president of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou[114] Yang Shilin spent 3 months in 1985 with Prof. Vogl in Brooklyn.

[122][123][124][125][126] Even in his first visit, contacts were made to have some scientist spend some time in his laboratory as Post Docs in Amherst and later in Brooklyn: Xi Fu and Hu Liping from Beijing, Li Shanjun and Fu Shoukuan from Shanghai, Xie S.S. from Chengdu and Zhang Jingyun from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.