Peter Franz Riederer (born 21 March 1942) is a German neuroscientist[1] with several thousands of citations and around 950 scientific writings.
Before he embraced neuroscience he had completed scientific studies at the Nuclear reactor Center Seibersdorf in Austria.
From 1971 to 1986 Riederer served as Chief of Clinical Neurochemistry at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute conducting numerous studies on postmortem brains of patients with neurological and psychiatric diseases.
In cooperation with Beckmann and dozens of other world scientists including Nobel Laureate Arvid Carlsson whom he succeeded at the position of Editor in Chief of the Journal of Neural Transmission, Riederer has focused his research on the neurotransmitters/receptors analysis and gene profiling of various neuropsychiatric diseases (depression, schizophrenia, neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease), neuroprotection, treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders etc.
He also serves as Head of the Brain Bank Centre in Würzburg and is active in the BrainNet Europe II initiative.