Anton Amann
Encyclopedia
Anton Amann is an Austria
n chemist
and
Professor
of chemistry
at the Innsbruck Medical University
.
He is working in the area of physical chemistry, ECG analysis, and exhaled breath analysis
.
Amann is the head of the Breath Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Science
and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Breath Research.
He is the author of more than 130 scientific articles.
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 http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=141721. 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 2006-2009 he was the coordinator of the European Union Project BAMOD (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., Innsbruck
(Austria). In 2004 he was chairman and organizer of the international conference Breath Gas Analysis for Medical Diagnostics., 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
.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n chemist
Chemist
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and
Professor
Professor
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of chemistry
Chemistry
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at the Innsbruck Medical University
Innsbruck Medical University
The Innsbruck Medical University is a university in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. It used to be one of the fours historical faculties of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck but became an independent university in 2004.- History :The medical tradition dates back long before the foundation of...
.
He is working in the area of physical chemistry, ECG analysis, and exhaled breath analysis
Breath gas analysis
Breath gas analysis is a method for gaining non-invasive information on the clinical state of an individual by monitoring volatile organic compounds present in the exhaled breath...
.
Amann is the head of the Breath Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Science
and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Breath Research.
He is the author of more than 130 scientific articles.
Career
After studying ChemistryChemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
at the ETH Zürich
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
, he continued with a PhD
PHD
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in Science.
The title of his dissertation 1984 with Hans Primas and Norbert Straumann was Observable in der W*-algebraischen Quantenmechanik http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=141721. In 1991 he earned Habilitation
Habilitation
Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve by his or her own pursuit in several European and Asian countries. Earned after obtaining a research doctorate, such as a PhD, habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent...
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 2006-2009 he was the coordinator of the European Union Project BAMOD (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., Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
(Austria). In 2004 he was chairman and organizer of the international conference Breath Gas Analysis for Medical Diagnostics., Dornbirn
Dornbirn
Dornbirn is a city in Vorarlberg, Austria. It is the administrative center of the district Dornbirn, which also includes the city of Hohenems, and the market town Lustenau....
(Austria).
Since 1997 he was a professor of chemistry at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, and since 2004 at the Innsbruck Medical University
Innsbruck Medical University
The Innsbruck Medical University is a university in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. It used to be one of the fours historical faculties of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck but became an independent university in 2004.- History :The medical tradition dates back long before the foundation of...
.
Selected publications
- with Julian King, Helin Koc, Karl Unterkofler, Pawel Mochalski, Alexander Kupferthaler, Gerald TeschlGerald TeschlGerald Teschl is an Austrian mathematical physicist and Professor of Mathematics.He is working in the area of mathematical physics; in particular direct and inverse spectral theory with application to completely integrable partial differential equations .-Career:After studying physics at the Graz...
, Susanne Teschl, Hartmann Hinterhuber: Physiological modeling of isoprene dynamics in exhaled breath, J. Theoret. Biol. 267 (2010), 626-637, http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2145. - with Julian King, Karl Unterkofler, Gerald Teschl, Susanne Teschl, Helin Koc, Hartmann Hinterhuber: A mathematical model for breath gas analysis of volatile organic compounds with special emphasis on acetone, J. Math. Biol. (2011), http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-010-0398-9.
- with Klotz K, Niederklapfer T, Kupferthaler A, Werther T, Granegger M, Lederer W, Baubin M, Lingnau W: Reduction of CPR artifacts in the ventricular fibrillation ECG by coherent line removal, BioMedical Engineering OnLine 9, (2010) 2.
- with Filipiak W, Sponring A, Filipiak A, Ager C, Schubert J, Miekisch W, Troppmair J: TD-GC-MS analysis of volatile metabolites of human lung cancer and normal cells in vitro, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 19 (2010) 182 - 195.
- with Julian King, Alexander Kupferthaler, Karl Unterkofler, Helin Koc, Susanne Teschl, Gerald Teschl, Wolfram Miekisch, Jochen Schubert, Hartmann Hinterhuber: Isoprene and acetone concentration profiles during exercise at an ergometer, J. Breath Research 3, (2009) 027006 (16 pp) http://iopscience.iop.org/1752-7163/3/2/027006?fromSearchPage=true.
- with K. Schwarz and W. Filipiak: Determining concentration patterns of volatile compounds in exhaled breath by PTR-MS, J. Breath Research 3, (2009) 027002 (15 pp) http://iopscience.iop.org/1752-7163/3/2/027002.
- with Bajtarevic A, Ager C, Pienz M, Klieber M, Schwarz K, Ligor M, Ligor T, Filipiak W, Denz H, Fiegl M, Hilbe W, Weiss W, Lukas P, Jamnig H, Hackl M, Haidenberger A, Buszewski B, Miekisch W, Schubert J: Noninvasive detection of lung cancer by analysis of exhaled breath, BMC Cancer 9 (2009) 348.
- with T. Werther, A. Klotz, G. Kracher, M. Baubin, HG. Feichtinger, H. Gilly: CPR artefact removal on ECG signals using Gabor multipliers, IEEE Trans Biomed. Eng. 65 (2009) 320 – 327 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4601456.
- with Ž. Krkošová, R. Kubinec, L. Soják: Temperature – programmed GC linear retention indices of all C4 – C30 monomethylalkanes on methylsilicone OV – 1 stationary phase. A contribution towards a better understanding of volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath, J. Chromatography A 1179 (2008) 59 – 68.
- with Robert Tratnig and Karl Unterkofler: Detecting Ventricular Fibrillation by Time-Delay Methods IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 54 (2007) 174 – 177 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4034001.
- with Thomas Breuer, and Nicolaas P. Landsman: Robustness in quantum measurements J. Math. Phys. 34 (1993) 5441 – 5450 http://jmp.aip.org/resource/1/jmapaq/v34/i12/p5441_s1?.
- Ground states of a spin-boson model, Annals of Physics 208 (1991) 414 – 448.
- Jauch-Piron states in W*-algebraic quantum mechanics, J. Math. Phys. 28 (1987) 2384–2389 http://jmp.aip.org/resource/1/jmapaq/v28/i10/p2384_s1?isAuthorized=no.