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Biography
Stefan Schuster (born 7 November 1961 in Meissen) is a German biophysicist. He is Professor for Bioinformatics at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
Life
Stefan Schuster studied biophysics at the Humboldt University Berlin and wrote his PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Reinhart Heinrich at the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at Humboldt University, Berlin (Title: "Theoretical studies on the interrelation between time hierarchy in enzymatic reaction systems and optimization principles"). In 2003 he got a professorship at the department of bioinformatics at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
Stefan Schuster is one of the spokesmen of the Jena Centre for Bioinformatics (JCB). He is involved in a variety of research projects, most of which most of them are research initiatives funded by the German ministry of research and education (BMBF). These include the virtual liver network "[1]", and the gerontosys initiative on systems biology of aging "GerontoSys" ("Gerontoshield" und "JenAge").
Stefan Schuster is currently editor of "BioSystems".
His younger brother is the stage director Robert Schuster.
Research topic Stefan Schuster is involved in include:
- Systems Biology
- Elementary modes (metabolic pathway analysis)
- Evolutionary game theory
- Metabolic control analysis
- Biological oscillations
Stefan Schuster has significantly contributed to the development of elementary mode analysis.
Scientific CV:
| Sept 1991 | -- | Nov 1992: | Post-Doc Université Bordeaux II, Professor Jean-Pierre Mazat |
| Dec 1992 | -- | March 1993: | Post-Doc Netherlands Cancer Institute, Dr. Hans Westerhoff |
| Mai 1993 | -- | April 1997: | Post-Doc Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Reinhart Heinrich |
| Since 1996: | Lecturer (Privatdozent) Theoretical Biophysics | ||
| August | bis | October 1997: | Visiting Scientist, University of Maribor (Slovenia), Dept. of Physics, Prof. Milan Brumen |
| May 1997 | bis | April 2003: | Junior research group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch |
| August 1998 | bis | April 2003: | Heisenberg fellow |
| Since 2003: | Professor for Bioinformatics at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena |
Article
Research articles from the group of Prof. Schuster at the Department of Bioinformatics in Jena can be found at:
List of publications