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Principal research interests
Philosophy of knowledge, science, and technology
Historical epistemology of structural sciences (such as information theory, semiotics, decision theory, cybernetics, computer science, artificial life, and artificial intelligence) Philosophy of science policy
Designing the interaction between self-organizing science and its societal boundary conditions
Philosophy of information and computing
Fundamental issues in the transmission, processing, and storage of information
Philosophy of biology
Synthesising artificial life and biosemiotics into a theory of living systems
Short biography
Born 1969
1990-1996 Study of philosophy in Düsseldorf and Bonn. Scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. M.A.
1996-1999 Doctoral study of philosophy in Düsseldorf. Postgraduate scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Dr. phil. Prize «Best Doctoral Thesis 1999» (awarded by Faculty of Arts/ Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).
2000-2003 Research at Institute of Philosophy/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Postdoctoral scholarship of Dr. Meyer-Struckmann Foundation.
2003-2006 Fellow of research group «Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics» at Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)/ Bielefeld University. Research for project «IKAR/OS – Brainlike Information Management» at Human Science Center (HWZ)/ Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (funded by German Ministry of Education and Research and interActive Systems Berlin). Head of research group «Information Dynamics» at Generation Research Program of HWZ in Bad Tölz.
2006-2008 Research at Institute of Philosophy/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Co-ordinator of research group «Evolution of Semantic Systems». Dr. phil. habil. «Dalberg Prize for Transdisciplinary Junior Research 2008» (awarded by Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt in conjunction with the Universities of Thuringia).
2008-2011 Scientific Manager of Frege Centre for Structural Sciences and Privatdozent at Institute of Philosophy/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Procuration of Professorship of Natural Philosophy at Institute of Philosophy/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena (winter term 2009/10 - winter term 2010/11).
2011- Scientific Officer for Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences at Department of Science – Policy – Society/ German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Halle/ Saale), Privatdozent at Institute of Philosophy/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and Associate Member of Frege Centre for Structural Sciences/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Further activities
Co-organizer of «Seventh German Workshop on Artificial Life GWAL-7» in Jena (26-28 July 2006, sponsored by European Office of Aerospace Research and Development/ US Air Force and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Co-organizer of symposion «Evolution of Semantic Systems» in Jena (5-6 October 2007, sponsored by VolkswagenStiftung).
Coordinator of «Jena Life Science Forum» 2009 and 2010 (sponsored by Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
Member of steering committee of cross-sectional research area «Analysis and Management of Complex Systems» at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2008-2011).
Editorial assistant of «Philosophia naturalis» (2003-2005, 2007-2009).
Member of editorial boards of «Biosemiotics» (formerly «Journal of Biosemiotics») and «Encyclopedia of Time».
Reviewer for journals «Acta Biotheoretica», «Axiomathes», «Constructivist Foundations», «International Journal of Unconventional Computing», «Biosemiotics» (formerly «Journal of Biosemiotics»), «Kybernetes», «Theory in Biosciences», and for Anniversary Fund of National Bank of Austria, National Science Foundation (USA), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and MIT Press.
Member of scientific committee of «Eighth German Workshop on Artificial Life GWAL-8» in Leipzig (30 July - 2 August 2008).
Member of selective committee of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2004-2005, 2007-2008).
Study adviser at Institute of Philosophy/ Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2006-2011).
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