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", since August 23, 1973
  • Head of the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry at the Universität Wien, 1973-1992 and since 1996,
  • 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

Scientific Research Areas
  • Theory of the Hydrogen bond and intermolecular forces
  • Kinetics of proton transfer reactions in aqueous solutions
  • Nonlinear dynamics and theory of complex evolvable systems
  • Theory of molecular evolution, in silico and in vitro studies on RNA replication, selection, and optimization
  • Structures and properties of RNA and proteins
  • Analytic approximations for nonlinear differential equations from physics, chemistry, and biology
  • Genetic regulatory networks and metabolic networks
  • Evolutionary biotechnology

Scientific Memberships
  • Elected Member of the "Gesellschaft für Physikalische Biologie der BRD", since March 28, 1980
  • Corresponding Member of the Academie Europeene des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, since March 31, 1983
  • Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, May 15, 1984 - May 12, 1992
  • Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since May 12, 1992
  • Member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina", since June 22, 1993
  • Member of the "Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig", March 11, 1994 - December 31,1995
  • Corresponding Member of the "Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig", since January 1, 1996
  • Extraordinary Member of the "Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften", since Feb. 17, 1995
  • Corresponding Member of the "Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften", since March 3, 1999
  • 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 19, 2009

Awards
  • Theodor Körner Förderungspreis 1971,
  • Jubiläumspreis of the “Chemisch-Physikalische Gesellschaft” 1971
  • Erwin Schrödinger Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1983
  • Dr. Assen Zlatarov Award of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1989
  • Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1993
  • Philip-Morris-Forschungspreis 1995
  • Josef-Loschmidt-Medal of the “Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker” 1995
  • Preis der Stadt Wien für Natur- und Technische Wissenschaften 1997
  • Kardinal-Innitzer Würdigungspreis für Naturwissenschaften 1997
  • Wilhelm-Exner-Medal of the “Österreichischer Gewerbeverein” 1999
  • Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien, 2009

Editor of Scientific Journals and Series
  • Mathematical Ecology, Akademie -Verlag Berlin (1986 -1991)
  • Monatshefte für Chemie, Springer -Verlag Wien (since 1989)
  • European Biophysics Journal, Springer -Verlag Berlin (1990-2000)
  • Artificial Life, MIT Press (since 1993)
  • Complexity (since 2002)

Advisory Editor of Scientific Journals
  • Chemical Physics Letters (1979 -1986)
  • European Biophysics Journal (1974 -1989)
  • Physik in unserer Zeit (1977-1999)
  • Monatshefte für Chemie (since 1978)
  • Journal of Molecular Structure, THEOCHEM (1980 -1986)
  • BioSystems (since 1980)
  • Advances in Chemical Physics (1984-1996)
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology (since 1985)
  • Origins of Life (1985 -1991)
  • Acta Biotheoretica (since 1986)
  • Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (since 1991)
  • Complexity (1991-2001)
  • Molecular Diversity (since 1995)
  • Theory in Biosciences (since 1997)

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