Academic biography

Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 1971–1993

Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Heidelberg, 1993

Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Jena, 1994

Director of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Jena, 1996-1998

Member of the Senate of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2002–2005

Dean of the Class of Humanities, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2003–2005

Director of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Jena, 2005-2007

Founding director of the Frege Centre for Structural Sciences, University of Jena, 2008-2012

Awards and honours

Woitschach Research Prize, 1991

Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Japanese Government, 1993

Member (external), Human Studies Centre, University of Munich (Germany),1999

Honorary Doctor, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka (Japan), 1999

Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, 1999

Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, 2000–2005

Member (corresp.), Académie Européene des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, 2002

Honorary Member, Centre of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences, Buenos Aires, 2003

Member, Academia Europaea, London, 2004