List of speakers

Prof. Dr. Michael von Brück, University of Munich

Michael von Brück is head of the Interfaculty Program of Religious Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich/Germany. He studied in Germany, India and Japan. He specializes in Advaita Vedânta and Mahâyâna-Buddhism. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Goethe Institute and a member of the Advisory Board of Suhrkamp Verlag: Edition World Religions. Michael von Brück has written seventeen major books and about two hundred essays in journals all over the world.

E-mail:     relwiss@evtheol.uni-muenchen.de
Web:        www.michael-von-brueck.de
Facebook: www.facebook.com/michaelvonbrueck


Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, University of Vienna

Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch is professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and member of its Department for Linguistics and Communication Research. She is training and supervising analyst of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (WPV) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), and member of the IPA-College of Research Fellows. 2004-2009 chair of the Ethics Committee of the WPV. Her recent publications include Psychoanalyse im Dialog der Wissenschaften. Vol. 1: Europäische Perspektiven (2002) and Vol. 2: Anglo-amerikanische Perspektiven (2004), Psychoanalysis as an Empirical, Interdisciplinary Science (2005), Geist, Gehirn, Verhalten: Sigmund Freud und die modernen Wissenschaften (2009), and Sensory Perception. Mind and Matter (2011) (with F. Barth and H.-D. Klein).

E-mail: Patrizia.Giampieri-Deutsch@univie.ac.at
Web:    www.psychoanalyse-psychotherapie.at


Uni.-Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes, University of Vienna

Klaus-Dieter Mathes is professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. His current research deals with Tibetan Madhyamaka in the 15th and 16th centuries. Before coming to Vienna he worked with Prof. Harunaga Isaacson (Hamburg) in a project on the Indian origins of Kagyu Mahāmudrā. His habilitation thesis (Hamburg 2004) was on Gö Lotsawa´s (1392-1481) Mahāmudrā Interpretation of Buddha-nature. It was published by Wisdom Publications under the title A Direct Path to the Buddha Within. The PhD thesis (Marburg 1994) was  was on the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga, an early Yogācāra work, that distinguishes between the ordinary phenomenal world and the true nature of these phenomena.

E-mail: klaus-dieter.mathes@univie.ac.at
Web:    www.stb.univie.ac.at


Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute Frankfurt

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolf Singer studied Medicine in Munich and Paris, obtained his MD from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and his PhD from the Technical University in Munich. He is Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and Founding Director both of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society. His research is focused on the neuronal substrate of higher cognitive functions, and especially on the question how the distributed sub-processes in the brain are coordinated and bound together in order to give rise to coherent perception and action.

E-mail: wolf.singer@brain.mpg.de
Web:   http://www.brain.mpg.de


Uni.-Prof. Dr. Anton Zeilinger

Anton Zeilinger is Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His experimental work on the foundations of quantum physics opened up applications in quantum cryptography, quantum computation and quantum teleportation. He did teaching and research at many institutions including  M.I.T., Collège de France, Technical University Munich, and Oxford University. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. Among many other prizes he received the inaugural Newton medal and the Wolf Prize in Physics. He wrote the popular science book “Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation”.