Bernd-Olaf Küppers#
| Membership Number: | 2267 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bernd-olaf-kueppers.de/Home.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005-2007 Director of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Jena
- 2003-2005 Dean of the Class of Humanities, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2002-2005 Member of the Senate of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 1996-1998 Director of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Jena
- 1994 Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Jena
- 1993 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Heidelberg
- 1971-1993 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Origin and evolution of life
- Philosophy of science at the borders of physics, chemistry, and biology
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Woitschach Research Prize
- 1993 Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Japanese Government
- 1999 Member (external), Human Studies Centre, University of Munich (Germany)
- 1999 Honorary Doctor, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka (Japan)
- 1999 Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 2000-2005 Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg
- 2002 Member (corresp.), Académie Européene des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris
- 2003 Honorary Member, Centre of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, Buenos Aires
- 2004 Member, Academia Europaea, London
