Dr. Dieter SCHWEIZER Wissenschaftlicher Direktor, Gregor Mendel-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenbiologie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
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| 1970 | Ph.D. (summa cum laude), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 1971-1973 | Post-doctoral education as a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (Prof. C.D. Darlington), and at the John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK |
| 1974-1980 | Visiting Assistant, University of Vienna |
| 1980 | ,-82,-89 Visiting Lecturer, University of Kaiserslauten, Germany |
| 1978 | Habilitation (Univ. Doz.) in Cytology, University of Vienna |
| 1983 | Appointment as Associate Professor - ao. Prof., Vienna University |
| 1986-2004 | Full Professor - o. Prof. (Cytology & Genetics in Botany) and Head of Department, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna |
| 2004-2006 | Head of Department (Chromosome Biology), Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna |
| 2000-2006 | Founding Director of the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
Mitgliedschaften
| Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (elected 1992) | |
| Fellow of the Argentinian Academy of Sciences at Cordoba | |
| Elected member of the Executive Council of the Federation of European Genetical Societies (FEGS) |
Publikationen
| numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of chromosome biology and transmission genetics |
Auszeichnungen
| SNF-Young Researchers Promotion Fellowship awarded by the University of Basel, 1971 | |
| Honorary Professor (Cytogenetics), University of Salzburg, 1988 | |
| Kardinal-Innitzer-Würdigungspreis für Naturwissenschaften, 2004 |
