Né en 1958. Licence en biologie puis thèse de doctorat à l'Université de Berne (1988); 1988 postdoc à l'Institut de Zoologie d'Innsbruck; maître assistant à l'Université de Bâle (1990-1992); chercheur au New Zealand Oceanographic Institute (NIWA, 1993-1995); maître assistant à l'Université de Bâle (1996-1997); depuis 1998 chargé de recherche au département des invertébrés au Muséum.
S'intéresse aux invertébrés marins et a essentiellement travaillé sur la systématique des hydrozaires [polypes et méduses], surtout de la région de l'Atlantique du Nord, de la Méditerranée, et de la Nouvelle Zélande.
Éditeur et contributeur principal de la base de données taxonomique
"World Hydrozoa Database" (lien http://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/).
Rédacteur de la Revue suisse de Zoologie.
Coordinateur des bases de données des collections du Muséum.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Peter Schuchert, born 7 December 1958, Swiss citizen, married, three children.
Academic titles: PD (Privatdozent, Lecturer), PhD, lic. phil. nat. (diploma)
1998: permanent position as research-officer at the Museum of Natural History of Geneva. Current research: systematics of marine Hydrozoa.
1997-98: research assistant, University Hospital Bern, Gastroenterology unit.
1996-97: fixed term employment as lecturer, Institute of Zoology, University of Basel, work on homeobox genes of hydrozoans.
1995-96: research fellow at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basel. Work on systematics of marine hydroids. Habilitation in February 1996 (Privatdozent, venia docendi).
1993-95: research fellow at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute (NIWA,
Wellington, New Zealand), work on life cycles and systematics of New Zealand marine medusae and hydroids.
1990-93: employment as assistant-professor, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland; principal investigator in a project funded by the Swiss national science foundation; work on molecular biology of marine hydromedusae and studies on the evolution of the phylum Cnidaria.
1988-89: postdoctoral fellow at the Zoological Institute of the University of Innsbruck, Austria (Prof. R. Rieger), studies on morphology and macrotaxonomy of the marine invertebrates Bonellia viridis (Phylum Echiura), Retronectes atypica (Phylum Platyhelminthes) and Trichoplax adhaerens (Phylum Placozoa).
1985-88: PhD studies, Institute for General Microbiology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Title of PhD thesis: “Analysis of DNA recombination in the yeast
Schizosaccharomyces pombe," University of Bern, April 1988.
1980-85: Studies of biology at the University of Bern, Switzerland; main subjects: genetics, microbiology, invertebrate and marine zoology, invertebrate
palaeontology. Diploma thesis on microbial genetics.