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 |
Peter Schuster passed away June 14, 2026.
Positions Held
- 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
- 2010 Great Silver Medal for Service to the City of Vienna
- 2009 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 1999 Wilhelm Exner Medal of the Austrian Trade Association
- 1997 Cardinal Innitzer Prize for Science
- 1995 Philip Morris Research Prize
- 1993 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1993 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 1992 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1991 External Faculty Professor of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA
- 1989 Dr. Asen Zlatarov prize of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1983 Erwin Schrödinger Award, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1971 Jubilee Award of the Chemical-Physical Society
- 1971 Theodor Körner promotion prize
