Gerhart I. Schueller, an outstanding scientist with enthusiasm for the international scientific community

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Gerhart I. Schueller was born in Salzburg, Austria. After having received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Teclinische Universitat Graz in 1967 and his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from Stanford University in 1970, he was Assistant Professor at the George Washington University (1970-1972), Washington D.C. and consequently Senior Lecturer at the Technische Umversitat Miinchen, Munich, Germany (1972-1981) where he received his habilitation degree in 1976. He then became Professor for Engineering Mechanics (1981-2010) at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck. He died in the year 2012 after unbroken continuous activities for science and research.In Innsbruck Gerhart I. Schueller established an internationally highly reputed research group dealing with computational structural mechanics and analysis and reliability of structures. A large number of scientific papers with approx. 50 different coauthors and approx. 1,000 citing scientists bear witness that Schueller's group was strongly and very successfully interacting with the international community.He felt responsible for the scientific community, which is also reflected in his enthusiasm and energy for promoting the European Association of Structural Dynamics (EASD), one of the numerous activities which strongly benefited of his initiatives. He was founding member of the EASD and for three terms President, recognizing and fostering the growing importance of structural dynamics in many engineering fields.