Curriculum vitae

Robert Hans Schuster
Date of birth: 08.09.1942 in Bucharest (Romania)
Office: Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie e. V. (DIK)
Private: Eupener Straße 33, 30519 Hannover, Germany

Education:
Dipl.-Chem. (1960-1967)
Institute of Organic Chemistry, University "Al. J. Cuza" Yassy (Romania)
Dissertation: 1984 "Thermodynamic Investigations on polystyrene-solvent Interaction",Univ. Freiburg, (Prof. Dr. H.-J. Cantow)

Scientific and educational activities:
1969 - 1980 Researcher at the Institute of Physical-Chemistry, Academy of
Science (Bucharest, Romania)
1980 - 1984 Researcher at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Freiburg, Germany)
1984 - 1992 Head of the Department "Chemistry and Physics of elastomers" at the German Rubber Institute (DIK)
Director of the DIK since September 1992 until 2010
2010-2012  Member of the DIK Board
Since 2012 Consultant to Lanxess
 
Lectures at Institutes and Universities
since 1987 Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Hanover, 
 since 1996 Professor at the University of Hanover
 since 2012 Professor at the Qingdao Institute for Science and Technology

Teaching courses and seminars at the
- Federal University Porto Alegre (Brasil) 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010,2012
- Rubber Institute Sao Leopoldo (Brasil) 1995, 1998, 2010, 2012
- Polytechnical University of Timisoara (Romania) 1999 – 2003
- Kyoto Institute of Technology 2009
- Quingdao University of Science and Technology (China) 2011, 2012
- European Summer School (Gargnano, Italy) 2001

Supervisor for 45 PhD Thesis

Publications:
45 Plenary and Invited lectures of International Conferences
Publications with referee 420
Lectures 570
Scientific books 3

Awards:
"Carl Harries" Award Medal from the German Rubber Society (1998)
Melwin Mooney Distinguished Award from ACS Rubber Division (2012)