Anton Amann

Anton Amann
Born (1956-06-20)20 June 1956
Bregenz, Austria
Died 6 January 2015(2015-01-06) (aged 58)
Innsbruck, Austria
Residence Götzens, Austria
Nationality Austria Austrian
Education M.S., ETH Zürich
Ph.D., ETH Zürich
Occupation Chemist
Employer Innsbruck Medical University
Title Professor
Website http://www.voc-research.at/

Anton Amann (20 June 1956 – 6 January 2015) was an Austrian chemist and Professor of chemistry at the Innsbruck Medical University. He worked in the area of physical chemistry, ECG analysis, and exhaled breath analysis.

Amann was the head of the Breath Research Institute of the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck (formerly an Institute of the Austrian Academy of Science) and editor in chief of the Journal of Breath Research.[1]

He authored more than 150 scientific articles.[2] He died in Innsbruck in 2015.[3]

Career

After studying chemistry at the ETH Zürich, he continued with a PhD in Science. The title of his dissertation 1984 with Hans Primas and Norbert Straumann was Observable in der W*-algebraischen Quantenmechanik (observables in W*-algebraic quantum mechanics).[4] In 1991 he earned Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the ETH Zürich. From 1987 to 1995 he was a senior research associate at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the ETH Zürich.

In 1995 he was awarded an APART grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and he also received an invitation to join Yale University as associate professor. In 1993 he was awarded with AECI Gold Medal by the South African Chemical Institute. In 2010 he received the Marie Sklodowska Curie Medal of the Polish Chemical Society.

From 2006 to 2009 he was the coordinator of the European Union Project BAMOD [5] (lung carcinoma screening, project funding: 3 million euro). In 2005 he was chairman and organizer of the international conference Breath Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis and Therapeutic Monitoring.,[6] Innsbruck (Austria). In 2004 he was chairman and organizer of the international conference Breath Gas Analysis for Medical Diagnostics.,[7] Dornbirn (Austria).

Since 1997 he was a professor of chemistry at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, and since 2004 at the Innsbruck Medical University.

Selected publications

References

  1. Editorial Board, Journal of Breath Research
  2. Selected Publications Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. "Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anton Amann" (in German). traueranzeigen.tt.com. 6 January 2015.
  4. cordis.europa.eu
  5. 2005 conference
  6. 2004 conference

External links

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