Peter Schuster#

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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)