Klaus Mainzer#
| Membership Number: | 2433 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mcts.tum.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=23&Itemid=68 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 TUM Emeritus of Excellence
- 2008 Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science at the TU Munich
- 2008 Scientific Director of the Carl von Linde-Akademie
- 1998 Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of computer science at the University of Augsburg
- 1989 Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Augsburg
- 1988 - 2008 Professor of Philosophy with a focus of science at the University of Augsburg
- 1985 - 1988 Vice-Rector of the University of Konstanz
- 1981 - 1988 Professor of Foundations and History of Exact Sciences at the University of Konstanz
- 1980 Heisenberg Scholarship
- 1979 Doctorate at the University of Münster
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematization and Computer Modelling
- Complex Dynamical Systems and Self-Organization in Nature and Society
- Chaos Theory
- Theory of Complexity and Computability
- Artificial Life (AL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Computational Brain
- Symmetries of Nature
- Space, Time, and Matter
- Cosmology and Evolution
- Multimedia Society
Honours and Awards
- Member of European Academy of Science (Academia Europaea) (London/Great Britain)
- Fellow of Interdisciplinary Institute of Informatics (University of Augsburg)
- Fellow of Institute of European Cultural History (University of Augsburg)
- Member of German-Japanese Society of Integrative Science: Chairman of the Scientific Board (Leibniz-Association, Bonn)
- Fellow of Gottlieb-Daimler and Karl-Benz Foundation (Ladenburg/Germany)
- Fellow of Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (Sion/Switzerland)
- Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh/USA)
- Fellow of Humboldt Center (University of Ulm)
- Fellow of Institute of New Media (Frankfurt a. M.)
- President of the German Society of Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics
- Member of Bavarian Elite Academy (Munich)
