Johann (Johnny) Gasteiger studied chemistry at the University
of Munich, ETH and the University of Zürich and received
his doctorate in Organic Chemistry from the University of Munich
in 1971. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in Quantum Chemistry
at the University of California in Berkeley in 1971-72, Johnny
taught at the Technical University of Munich. In 1994 he moved
to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg where he co-founded the
"Computer-Chemie-Centrum". He is one of the founders
of Chemoinformatics in Germany and has produced more than 200
scientific publications in this field. His research interests
are in the development of software for drug design, simulation
of chemical reactions, organic synthesis design, simulation of
spectra, and chemical information processing by neural networks
and genetic algorithms.
Johnny was consultant to the Beilstein Institute and to FIZ Chemie
Berlin, where he was the project manager for the development of
the ChemInformRX reaction database. He is a past chairman (1994-96)
of the Division "Chemie-Information-Computer" of the
German Chemical Society. Currently he is Vice-Chairman of the
Working Party "Computational Chemistry" of the Federation
of European Chemical Societies.
In 1991 he was awarded the Gmelin-Beilstein Medal of the German
Chemical Society for Achievements in Computer Chemistry, and in
1997 he received the Herman Skolnik Award of the Division of Chemical
Information of the American Chemical Society.
johann.gasteiger@chemie.uni-erlangen.de