Dr Schuster accomplished his early academic and professional education at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich and the Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He obtained his doctorate in Biostatistics from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics at the LMU. Subsequently, he received a post-doctoral award from the Canadian Network of Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) and carried out a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmacoepidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University and the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in Montreal. He continued with a research fellowship at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne where he was acting Director of Biostatistics at the newly established Melbourne Children’s Trial Centre in 2015. In August 2016, Dr Schuster started a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine. He is holder of a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Biostatistical Methods for Primary Care Research. In 2019, he’s been the acting Director of the Methods Development Component of the Quebec SPOR-SUPPORT (Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support for People and Patient-Oriented Research and Trials) Unit and since July 2019, the Graduate Program Director for the Ph.D. program and Postdoctoral Fellows at the Department of Family Medicine.  Dr Schuster taught biostatistical methods at renowned institutions in Germany, Canada and Australia. He acted and is acting as supervisor and mentor for graduate and doctoral students in the fields of biostatistics, epidemiology and bio-medical research.