Prof. Dr. Eva Ruhnau

Scientific Director, Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Eva Ruhnau studied physics, mathematics and philosophy in Germany and Canada. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Technical University of Munich. She was teaching at the Universities of Edmonton (Canada), Munich, Jena, Hamburg and Berlin. She worked as a researcher at the Department of Mathematics (University of Edmonton), Canada, the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, the Institute of Medical Psychology (University of Munich), the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, the Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, USA, the Research Center Jülich and at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Tokyo, Japan.

Since 1997 she is scientific director of the Human Science Center of the University of Munich. 2016/17 she was also guest professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin. She has worked and published in the fields of differential geometry, the concept of time in physics and philosophy and its mathematical modelling, the foundations of quantum theory and in the neurosciences. She has published approximately 50 articles and 4 books.

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