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.
Dr. Mike Dürr Specht, medicine and health management – research scientist
Prof. Dr. Thomas Filk, theoretical physics – research scientist
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Grothe, neurobiology – research scientist
Prof. Dr. Balázs Gulyás, neurobiology – research scientist
Dr. Martin Hirsch, biology – research scientist
Adriano Mannino, ethics – research scientist, Director of the Solon Center for Policy Innovation
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. Eörs Szathmáry, evolutionary biology – Director of the Parmenides Center for the Conceptional Foundations of Science
Marie Türcke, philosophy – research scientist
Dr. Elias Zafiris, mathematics – research scientist