Dr. Dieter SCHWEIZER Wissenschaftlicher Direktor, Gregor Mendel-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenbiologie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien

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