Heinz Georg Schuster is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Kiel in Germany. In 1971 he attained his doctorate and in 1976 he was appointed Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He has been a visiting professor at the Weizmann–Institute of Science in Israel and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. His current research interests are nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems and neuronal networks.