Peter Schuster#
| Membership Number: | 2611 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~pks |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2009 Professor emeritus, University of Vienna
- 2006-2009 President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 2000-2003 Vicepresident of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 1992-1995 Founding Director, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany
- 1973-2009 Full Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna
- 1968-1969 PostDoc, Max Planck-Institut for Physical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
- 1967 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer simulation of evolution in vitro
- Intermolecular interactions
- Modeling of genetic and metabolic networks
- RNA bioinformatics
- RNA molecular structures
Honours and Awards
- since 2009 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- since 2009 Member of the Academia Europaea (London)
- since 1993 Member of the „Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher – Leopoldina“
- since 1992 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- since 1991 External Faculty Professor of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA
- 1999 Wilhelm Exner Medal
- 1995 Phillip Morris-Preis
- 1993 Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst
- 1983 Erwin Schrödinger Award, Austrian Academy of Sciences
