in 1967 from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania.
He earned a Doctor of Science in February 1984 at the Staudinger Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on the topic of "thermodynamic investigations on polystyrene-solvent systems" under advisor H.J.
[3] From 1984 to 1992, Schuster led the Department of Chemistry and Physics of Elastomers at DIK.
He was also a lecturer at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in the University of Hanover since 1987, and he held the rank of professor there since April 1996.
[3] His most cited work treats the subject of fractal filler networks in rubber.