Dr. Ing. Peter S. Geissler
Dr. Peter Geissler, the Swiss Patent and Trademark Agent, is best known as an authority on procedural aspects of international patent prosecution and trademark registration.
In addition, Dr. Geissler has a broad background in engineering, and the physical and biomedical sciences. He was lecturer at the University of California (Davis, Berkeley and Irvine) and research scientist in the Division of Biology and Medicine at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for twenty years (1974 – 1994).
Dr. Geissler was appointed Science Advisor to the California Energy Commission for the State of California.
Dr. Geissler was appointed Special National Institutes of Health Research Fellow in Physiological Optics at the School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley and Special National Institutes of Health Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, Davis.
Dr. Geissler was appointed Bioradiology & Medical Physics Consultant to the Department of Physiology, New York University Medical School and served as a Lecturer in the Trauma Program, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Yale University.
Dr. Geissler was awarded an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship at the Institute für Physiologie, Die Freie Universität, Berlin.
When asked what he considers his most significant intellectual contribution, Dr. Geissler responds without hesitation: "serving as Professor Howard Mel's assistant" for twenty-odd years in Berkeley on the development of the Theory of Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes [c.f. Mel, H. and Geissler, P., “Global Thermodynamic Potential Function for Nonequilibrium, Open Chemical Reaction Systems” 1986 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Technical Report No. LBL-22323].
When asked about what he considers his greatest failure, Dr. Geissler
responds, similarly, without hesitation: "trying to start a medical
school in war-torn Uganda". After many years of effort, hundreds
of thousands of dollars in fund-raising, and significant educational support
from Cambridge University faculty, only a handful of African physicians
were ultimately trained in tropical medicine before the school finally
closed its doors. En route, however, there were also triumphs, such
as having been appointed Chancellor of Saint Christopher's College of
Medicine in Senegal, serving as Director of the Cambridge Overseas Medical
Training Programme in the West Indies and Africa, serving as Managing
Director of Kigezi International School of Medicine in Uganda, and presiding
over graduation ceremonies in the United Nations building in New York.
Dr. Geissler is a member of the Carlton Club in London.
Currently, Dr. Geissler spends most of his time as a lecturer and consultant on patents and trademarks. However, there might be another African adventure in his future . . .
ENGINEERING EDUCATION:
| PhD | Civil Engineering |
| Department of Civil Engineering | |
| University of California, Irvine | |
| MS (Eng) | Civil Engineering |
| Department of Civil Engineering | |
| University of California, Irvine | |
| MEng (Civil) | Civil Engineering |
| Department of Civil Engineering | |
| University of California, Davis | |
| BSc (Eng) | Civil Engineering |
| Department of Civil Engineering | |
| Stanford University | |
| AB | Physics |
| Department of Physics | |
| University of California, Berkeley |
ENGINEERING LICENSES:
| Civil Engineer – State of California | |
| Civil Engineer – State of Washington | |
| Mechanical Engineer – State of Washington | |
| Chartered Engineer – Republic of Ireland | |
| Chartered Engineer – European Union | |
| Chartered Engineer – Province of British Columbia |
BIOMEDICAL EDUCATION:
| PhD | Physiology |
| Department of Physiology | |
| Yale University | |
| MPhil | Physiology |
| Department of Physiology | |
| Yale University | |
| MA | Physiology |
| Department of Physiology | |
| Yale University | |
| MPhil (Cantab) | Biological Sciences |
| Department of Anatomy | |
| University of Cambridge | |
| MD | Grace University |
| School of Medicine | |
| Saint Kitts-Nevis | |
| MS | American University of the Caribbean |
| School of Graduate Studies | |
| Montserrat, British West Indies | |
| MA | Biophysics |
| Department of Biophysics & Medical Physics | |
| University of California, Berkeley |
BIOMEDICAL LICENSES:
| Registered Radiation Health Physicist – Washington D.C. | |
| Registered Naturopath – Washington D.C. | |
| Registered Addiction Counselor – Washington D.C. | |
| Licensed Mental Health Counselor – State of Florida | |
| Registered Counselor – State of Washington |
FELLOWSHIPS:
| Institution of Engineers of Ireland | |
| Special National Institutes of Health Research Fellow | |
| Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow |