Core Team
The Parmenides Foundation’s core team consists of a multi-disciplinary group of research scientists working in experimental psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, theoretical physics, theoretical biology, and medicine.
Patrick Bungard, Co-Chair Economics and Sustainability
Dr. Mike Dürr Specht, medicine and health management – Chief Medical Officer
Prof. Dr. Thomas Filk, theoretical physics – research scientist
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Grothe, neurobiology – research scientist
Prof. Dr. Balázs Gulyás, neurobiology – research scientist
Prof. Dr. Martin Hirsch, medicine and education – project leader of the Parmenides Learning-to-Think program and research scientist
Dr. Örs Legeza, mathematics and physics - research scientist
Prof. Dr. Albrecht von Müller, philosophy – Director of the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking
Prof. Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosophy and political theory – Staatsminister a.D., Director of the Parmenides Center for Digital Humanism
Andrej Nikonov, physics – research scientist
Dr. Michael Öllinger, experimental psychology – research scientist
Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel, neuropsychology – Director of the Parmenides Center for Art and Science
Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter, Co-Chair Economics and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Eörs Szathmáry, evolutionary biology – Director of the Parmenides Center for the Conceptional Foundations of Science
Dr. Elias Zafiris, mathematics – research scientist