Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. 

Telefon: +43 1 58801 13480

E-Mail: gerhard.schuetz@tuwien.ac.at

Research Interest

• Developing and applying single molecule spectroscopy and imaging methods for the in vivo analysis of plasma membrane proteins and lipids.
• Understanding the functional role of plasma membrane nanostructures.
• Molecular mechanism of early T cell signaling.

Publications

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Scientific and Professional Background

since  2011
Full Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics, TU Wien

2004 - 2011
Associate Professor at the Biophysics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz

2004
Venia Docendi (Habilitation) in Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz

2001 - 2004
University Assistant at the Biophysics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz

1997 - 2001
Postdoctoral fellow at the Biophysics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz

1997
PhD with “Single Molecule Optical Microscopy: Applications to Biosystems”

1995
Master Degree “Studies of the dynamics of single membrane constituents using fluorescence microscopy"

1988 - 1995
Study of Technical Physics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz

Honors

• Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Award, 2001
• Upper-Austrian Award for Young Scientists, 2003
• START-Award, 2004

Memberships

• Junge Kurie of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGMBT): board member
• Austrian Biophysical Society (ÖBG): vice president (2010-2013); president (2013-2015)
• Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG)
• American Biophysical Society
• BIOINTERFACE network at TU Wien