Gotfried Schatz- Curriculum Vitae#
Academic education and professional experience
- 1954-1961- University of Graz, Austria (Chemistry and Biochemistry) Ph.D. summa cum laude, 1961
- 1961-1968- Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
- 1964-1966- Post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Efraim Racker at the Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, USA
- 1968-1973- Associate Professor, Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- 1973-1974- Professor, Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- 1974-present- Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland (emeritus as of October 30, 2000)
- 1983-1985- Chairman, Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
- 2000-2003- President, Swiss Science and Technology Council
Scientific mandates
- US National Science Foundation, Biochemistry and Biophysics Advisory Panel, 1973-1974
- EMBO Fellowship Committee, 1978-1982
- Scientific Advisory Committee, EMBL, Heidelberg 1986-1989
- Advisory Board, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, 1984-1986
- Swiss Advisory Board, Basel Institute of Immunology 1985-1988
- Advisory Board, Maurice E. Müller-Institut für hochauflösende Elektronenmikroskopie am Biozentrum, Basel 1983-1985
- Secretary General, European Molecular Biology Organization 1984-1989
- Advisory Board, Max-Planck-Institute of Cell Biology, Ladenburg/Heidelberg 1983-
- Chairman of the Advisory Board, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Vienna 1987-1999
- Scientific Advisory Board, Biology Department, Princeton University, 1988 - 1991
- Advisory Board, Swiss Cancer Research Institute (ISREC), Lausanne 1990-1992
- Member, Swiss National Research Council, 1990-2000
- Chairman of the Advisory Board, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Heidelberg 1990-1992
- Advisory Board, Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Iraklion, Crete, 1990-1992
- Council, The Protein Society, 1993-1999
- Advisory Board, Molecular Biology Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Salzburg 1994-1996
- Chairman of the Evaluation Committee, Max Delbrück Centrum, Berlin 1996
- Chairman of the Evaluation Committee, CNRS Division of the Institut Curie, Paris, 1998-
- Strategic Advisory Committee, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 2000
- Innitzer Prize, 1967
- Emil Christian Hansen Gold Medal, Carlsberg Foundation, 1983
- Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society, 1985
- Member, Deutsche Akademie Leopoldina, 1986
- Sir Hans Krebs Medal, FEBS, 1986
- Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987
- Otto Warburg Medal, German Biochemical Society, 1988
- Member, Academia Europaea, 1988
- Foreign Member, US National Academy of Sciences, 1989
- Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, 1990 (with N. Le Douarin and H. von Boehmer)
- Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse, 1991
- Schleiden Medal, Deutsche Akademie Leopoldina, 1993
- Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1993
- Prix Marcel Benoist, 1993
- Member, Nordrhein-westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1994
- Doctorate honoris causa, Comenius University, Bratislava, 1996
- Lynen Medal, University of Miami, USA, 1997 (with G. Blobel and J. E. Rothman)
- Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1997
- Gairdner Award, 1998
- Foreign Member, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1998
- Doctorate honoris causa, Stockholm University, 2000
- Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich, 2000
- Wilson Medal, American Society of Cell Biology, 2000
- Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize, 2004
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009
- Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 2009
- Europäischer Wissenschafts-Kulturpreis der Kulturstiftung "Pro Europa“, 2009