Michael Ramek: Curriculum Vitae.

deutsche Version.

General:

Date of birth: July 10, 1954, in Salzburg (Austria);
Citizenship: Austrian;
Civic status: single;
Military service: October 1, 1982-May 31, 1983.

Current position:

Associate professor at the Technische Universität (TU) Graz, Austria.

Educational background:

Formal graduation (Diplom-Ingenieur):
TU Graz, December 15, 1978;
Doctor technicae (Ph. D. equivalent):
TU Graz, July 20, 1982;
Habilitation (Universitätsdozent) for Computational Treatment of Molecules:
TU Graz, December 8, 1991.

Research activities:

Main research field is the structure determination of biologically important compounds via quantum chemical ab initio methods, which included the projects P6856, P8053, and P9095 of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF).
 
In the recent years, involvement in e-learning activities grew to a separate research topic.
 
Past and currently active scientific cooperations, which have lead to publications in international journals:

• Dr. David R. Armstrong [Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK)],
• Dr. Vincent K. W. Cheng [Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong],
• Prof. Paul G. Mezey [Deparment of Chemistry and Department of Mathematics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (Canada)],
• Prof. Bruno Gruber [Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in Niigata (Japan)],
• Dr. Sonja Nikolić [Institut Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb (Croatia)],
   
• Prof. Peter I. Nagy [Department of Pharmacy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (USA)],
• Prof. Lothar Schäfer [Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. (USA)],
• Dr. Sanja Tomić [Institut Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb (Croatia)]
and
• Dr. Jasmina Sabolović  / Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb(Croatia).

Symposium organization:

Based on then exisiting partnership contracts between the SIU at Carbondale on the one hand and the TU Graz and the Land Vorarlberg on the other hand, I became involved in 1991 in the organization of two international symposia. While the partnership contract between the TU Graz and the SIUC has come to an end several years ago, my involvement in both symposia remained.

• Symmetries in Science (scientific program organized by Prof. Dieter A. Schuch);
• Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Aging (scientific program organized by Prof. Richard E. Falvo et al.).

Both meetings are held (more or less) bianually in the months of July or August at the Collegium Mehrerau in Bregenz (Austria). Questions of local nature should be directed to me (michael.ramek@tugraz.at), whereas inquiries about future meetings should be addressed to the scientific organizers (schuch@em.uni-frankfurt.de and holly.brown.borg@med.und.edu, respectively). Information about the Bregenz festival can be obtained from a separate web page.