!!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)