He won the 2009 Gold Medal of the British Society of Rheology.
The term was first proposed by Alfred L. Copley, a German-American medical scientist, at the first International Congress on Rheology in 1948.
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Biorheological research aims to determine and characterize the dynamics of physiological processes at all levels of biological organization, and the inter-relationships between rheological properties of various biological systems.
In 1956 Prof. Schügerl came to Germany to work at Riedel de Haën at Seelze near to Hannover and finished in 1959 his PhD thesis at the University of Hannover under the supervision of Prof. Schiemann in the area of kinetics and rheology of fluid bed systems.
G. W. Scott Blair & M. Reiner (1957) Agricultural Rheology (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London)