Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bauer graduated as pharmacist at University of Munich, Germany and passed his PhD degree in 1984, had habilitated himself in 1990 in pharmaceutical biology. He worked in this university as scientific assistant until 1993. Then he went to University of Düsseldorf where he gained the university professorship. Later he achieved full professorship in 2002 and was for many years head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Graz (Austria) and currently head of the Institute of Pharmacognosy. Professor Bauer is working as Chairman of the TCM Working Group of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission and is the head of the TCM Research Center, Herbal Medicine Research, Graz.

His main research fields are quality control and standardization of herbal drugs and herbal medicinal products, including Chinese herbal drugs, isolation and structure elucidation of biologically active plant constituents, pharmacological screening and pharmacokinetic studies of plant constituents, plant metabolomics-based drug discovery, interaction of herbal medicinal products with gut microbiota. He has authored more than 388 scientific papers and 6 patents, the number of independent citations is over 10.000, his h-index is 65. He has supervised so far 34 PhD theses. Many research grants and different international projects marked his activities. He is a holder of the Egon-Stahl-Award (1990), Norman R. Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award (2010), Varro E. Tyler Award (2019). He is honorary Guest Professor of 5 Chinese universities and Honorary Doctorate of University of Helsinki (Finland).

In 2007 he started to collaborate with the researchers of the Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Szeged. This fruitful collaboration resulted in 7 scientific papers, 5 congress contributions and 4 common PhD theses. Professor Bauer was many times guest of University of Szeged and hold invited lectures.

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