Curriculum Vitae
Univ.Prof. em. Dipl. Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Uwe B. SLEYTR
Date of Birth
July 15, 1942, Vienna, Austria
Degrees
Dipl.Ing. (1966) in Food- and Biotechnology and Dr.nat.techn. (1970), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Employment
1965-1972 Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
1972-1973 Visiting Scientist at the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, England (Fellowship of the European Molecular Biology Organization)
1973 Habilitation (Associate Professor) for „Microbiology“,University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
1974-1975 Senior Visiting Scientist at the Strangeways Research Laboratory and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England (Fellowship of the Medical Research Council)
1977 University Professor for „Microbiology“
1977-1978 Senior Visiting Scientist at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University, School of Medicine (Fulbright and Senior Foreign Dental Scientist Fellowship)
1980 Call for the Chair of the Department of Microbiology, University of Vienna
1980-2010 Head of the Center for Ultrastructure Research at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (renaming in Department of NanoBiotechnology in 2004)
1982 Full Professor for „Ultrastructure Research“ at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
1985 Primo loco on the short-list as head for the Chemistry Department at the GKSS-Research Center Geesthacht, Germany and Full Professor (C4) at the Department for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at the University Hamburg, Germany
1986-2004 Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Molecular Nanotechnology, Vienna
2003 Establishment of spin-off companies Nanosearch and NANO-S.
Since Oct. 2010 Professor emeritus at the Department of NanoBiotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna
Awards
- Schwackhöfer-Award of the Austrian Society for Food and Biotechnology, 1970
- Sandoz (Novartis) -Award 1971
- Dipl. Award of the Royal Microscopical Society, Oxford, Great Britain, 1975
- Award for the Promotion of Science of the City of Vienna, 1983
- Science Award of the City of Vienna, 1983
- EUREKA Award for Inventors, 1988
- Innitzer Award for Natural Sciences, 1989
- Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1992-1994
- Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, since 1994
- Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1994
- Honorary Member of the Czechoslovakian Society for Microbiology, 1997
- Philip Morris Research Award, 1998
- Wilhelm Exner Medal of the Austrian Association for SME (Österr. Gewerbeverein), 1998
- Prize of the City of Vienna for Sciences, 1999
- Honorary Professor appointment at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2006
- Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, since 2008
- Honorary Professor appointment at China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, Shandong, China, 2010
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2012
- Honorary Professor Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2013
Main Areas of Research
Molecular Nanotechnology and Nanobiotechnology, Biomimetics, Synthetic Biology, General Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Membrane Technology, Ultrastructure Research, Development of a molecular construction kit, Studies on the Structure, Chemistry, Morphogenesis, Function and Application Potential of S-Layers.
Publications and Patents
420 publications: https://forschung.boku.ac.at/en/researcher/90F64EFEA2453D91
Numerous international patents in the areas of membrane technology, biotechnology, vaccine development, molecular nanotechnology and genetics of prokaryontic exoproteins.
Books
- Low Temperature Methods in Biological Electron Microscopy (Co-Author A.W. Robards), Elsevier, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 1985, 551 pp.
- Crystalline Bacterial Cell Surface Layers (Co-Editors P. Messner, D. Pum, M. Sára), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, 1988, 200 pp.
- Immobilised Macromolecules: Application Potentials (Co-Editors P. Messner, D. Pum, M. Sára), Springer, London, 1993, 212 pp.
- Crystalline Bacterial Cell Surface Layer Proteins (S-layers) (Co-Editors P. Messner, D. Pum, M. Sára), Landes, Austin, 1996, 225 pp.
- Curiosity and Passion for Science and Art: S-layer Proteins of Bacteria and Archaea. World Scientific Publishing 450p 2016
Professional Societies and Affiliations
- Life member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge, Great Britain, since 1982
- DECHEMA/GVC-Commission on Membrane Technology, 1987-1993
- Senator of Section Food Science and Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, 1990-1992
- Member of the Scientific Board of the Austrian Science Fund, 1982-1990
- Member of the Council of the Österreichischer Forschungsförderungsrat, 1994-1998
- Member of the Senate of the Austrian Christian Doppler Society, 1988-2001
- Member of the Advisory Committee for APART scholarships and committees of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1993-2002
- Member of the Board of the Institute for Integrated Sensor Systems and the Institute for Biophysics and Nanosystem Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1991-1996)
- Member of the Board of the Austrian Society for Electron Microscopy, 1980-1996
- Member of the Board of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, 1983-2018
- Vice President of the Erwin Schrödinger Society for Microsciences, 1988-1996
- President of the Erwin Schrödinger Society for Nanosciences, 1999-2002
- Vice President of the Erwin Schrödinger Society for Nanosciences 2002-2010
- Member of the Board of the Austrian Industrial Research Promotion Fund (FFF), 1997-2001
- Member of the Committee of the Novartis (Sandoz) Award, 1998-2007
- Head of the Committee of the Exner Medal Award of the Austrian Association for SME (Österreichischer Gewerbeverein), 2001-2015
- Head of the local Scientific Advisory Board of the Center of Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2002-2006
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committe (SAC) of the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE), 2004-2007
- Member of the Advisory Board of the CALIT NanoBio Steering Committee, Center of Advanced Learning in Information Technologies (ICAM), Belgium, 2006-2010
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Financial Department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2009
- Member of the Assembly of Delegates, (Section for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) since 2000- 2004
- Member of the “Science and Ethics Committee” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2011