Anton Amann


Anton Amann 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 and editor in chief of the Journal of Breath Research.
He authored more than 150 scientific articles. He died in Innsbruck in 2015.

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. 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 . In 2005 he was chairman and organizer of the international conference Breath Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis and
Therapeutic Monitoring., Innsbruck. In 2004 he was chairman and organizer of the international conference Breath Gas Analysis for Medical Diagnostics., Dornbirn.
Since 1997 he was a professor of chemistry at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, and since 2004 at the Innsbruck Medical University. In 2010, he received the Marie Curie Medal.

Selected publications