• Peter Schuster, born March 07, 1941 in Vienna

        • University Education:

            • Chemistry and Physics at the "Universität Wien", Ph.D. Degree sub auspiciis praesidentis, in 1967.

        • Professional Career:

          • Postdoctoral assistant with Prof. Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Insitute of Physical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, 1968-1969,
          • Habilitation in Theoretical Chemistry at the "Universität Wien", 1971,
          • Full professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the "Universität Wien", August 23, 1973 - September 30, 2009,
          • Head of the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry at the Universität Wien, 1973-1992 and 1996-2010,
          • Head of the Computer Center at the "Universität Wien", 1985-1991,
          • External faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA, 1991-2003 and since July 01, 2004,
          • Founding director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Jena, Germany, 1992-1995,
          • Head of the Department of Molecular Evolutionary Biology at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
            • in  Jena, Germany, 1992-1997,
          • External member of the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy at the "Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena", Germany,  since 1995,
          • Vice-President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2000 - 2003,
          • Member of the Presiding Committee of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina", 2001-2006,
          • President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2006-2009
          • Professor emeritus at the Universität Wien, since October 01, 2009


        • Elected Scientific Memberships

          • Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since May 8, 1984,
          • Member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina", since June 22, 1993,
          • Member of the "Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig", since March 11, 1994,
          • Member of the "Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften", since Feb. 17, 1995,
          • Member of the "Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften", since March 3, 1999,
          • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, since 2004,
          • Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA, since April 28, 2009
          • Member of the Academia Europaea, London, since May, 2009
          • Titular member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Sciences, since November, 2009
          • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), since April, 2014


        • Detailed Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

       

      ©J. Ivansits, February, 2010