Biographies of Authors and Editors
Schneider, Erich Dr. sc. techn.
Professor and Director
AO Center, Clavadelerstrasse, CH-7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland
E-mail: erich.schneider@ao-asif.ch
Web-site: www.ao-asif.ch
Erich Schneider is Director of the AO Research Institute in Davos. He started his career in biomechanics with a degree in Electrical Engineering and a doctoral dissertation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. He was then awarded a research fellowship from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA, where he studied the performance of implant and patient subsequent to total joint replacement. In 1982, he moved to the M.E. Müller-Institute for Biomechanics at the University of Bern where he completed his habilitation on prosthetic micromotion and performed in vivo measurements by means of an instrumented interlocking nail to monitor fracture healing progression. He became Full Professor of Biomechanics at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany in 1991 before he assumed the position in Davos. His current interest is fracture fixation in osteoporotic bone.
