Roland Glaser

Roland Glaser (born Jena 23 May 1935) is a German biophysicist and writer. Between 1981 and 1990 he served as President of the Association for Physical and Mathematical Biology. ("Gesellschaft für physikalische und mathematische Biologie").

Glaser has been described as a pioneer of modern biophysical research in the former German Democratic Republic, where he helped to bring his subject into the scientific mainstream.

Life Glaser was born in Jena. His father worked as an engineer with Carl Zeiss, then as now a high-profile Jena company. When he was 10 the war which had been a feature of his early life ended, and Jena found itself in the Soviet occupation zone of what remained of Germany. Glaser's father was forcibly relocated to the Soviet Union where he was put to work as a scientific researcher between 1946 and 1952. Roland Glaser was nevertheless able to pass his final school exams in Jena in 1953. received for work on water pollution through radiation.