We are very pleased to welcome two new members into domusBITae circulus:
Prof. Rainer Zimmermann and Prof. John Mingers, as well as Munich
University of Applied Science (HM) as a new partner of the consortium. Both
Prof. Zimmermann and Prof. Mingers will join the Science Advisory Board.
Munich University of Applied Science, Germany Conducted by Prof. Rainer ZIMMERMANN HM
is one of the largest Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany.
Particularly Faculty 13: for General and interdisciplinary Studies (in which Prof. Zimmermann is professor of philosophy) plays a significant role in the provision of a general education. The faculty has significant strengths in intercultural communication and virtual education,
both of significant added value to the purposes of domusBITae.Rainer Zimmerman: Philosophy of Complex Systems  PhD in Philosophy in 1988 from TU Berlin). S ince 1995 h e
is Professor of Philosophy at the Falculty 13 (HM). His
interdisciplinary profile can be clearly observed in the varied
positions he has held in his academic career:
In 1998, Habilitation in Natural Philosophy (University of Kassel) –
since then member (Privatdozent) of the department there; 1999/2000
Visiting Scholar at the History and Philosophy of Science Department and
Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, both at Cambridge (UK) – since then Life
Member of Clare Hall; 2001 Research Visitor to the University of
Bologna, Cooperative Research Project there under the title
"Reconstruction of the Historical City Centre"; 2003 Senior Visiting
Fellow to the Institute of Advanced Studies, Villa Gandolfi Pallavicini,
University of Bologna; 2006 International Visiting Professor at the
Information and Communication Technologies and Society program,
University of Salzburg; 2010/2011 Visiting Professor, Centre for
Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin. | John MINGERS: Information theory, information and meaning, semiotics  Dr.
John Mingers received his Masters degree in Systems Thinking from
Lancaster University and his PhD titled “Knowledge and Action in
Management Science” from Warwick University in 1994. Originally an
operational researcher at British Leyland and Unilever, John joined
Warwick Business School in 1987 and became a Professor of OR and Systems
in 1998. He joined Kent Business School in 2003 as Director of
Research. He was elected as an Academician of the UK Academy of Social
Sciences in 2009. He has been a member of the Council of the
OR Society and Chair of the UK Systems Society, and is currently a
member of the Editorial Board of MIS Quarterly and is a past member of
the Editorial Board of European Journal of Information Systems, Systems
Research and the Behavioural Sciences, and the Journal of Mixed Methods
Research. He has published the only comprehensive study of
autopoiesis – “Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of
Autopoiesis”. His latest monograph is “Realizing Systems Thinking:
Knowledge and Action in Management Science”. His theory of information,
and its relationship to meaning, has been developed in papers in
Information Systems Research, Information and Organization, and
Knowledge Management Research and Practice. |