Curriculum Vitae

Martin Potschka's Biography

	Ph.D.	1983, University of Vienna, Austria
	MS	1978, University of Vienna, Austria

Professional experience

	1996-00	Coordinator of IUPAC-Working Party IV.2.2 Project “Size exclusion chromatography band broadening correction”
	1992	Visiting Scholar of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Indiana University, IN, USA
	1990-91	WHO training course “Healthy Cities” (division Danube region) (managed by IFF, Vienna, Austria)
	1990-present	Consultant for science and development issues
	1988-90	Research Scientist, Immuno AG., Vienna, Austria
	1987-88	Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut, CT, USA
	1985-87	Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, FRG (Manfred Eigen, Klaus Weber)
	1982-84	Research Scientist, University of Vienna, Austria (Peter Schuster)
	1978-81	Research Assistant, University of Connecticut, CT, USA (Todd M Schuster)
	1978	Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, FRG (Manfred Eigen)

Honors

	1981	Harold Lamport Award of the US Biophysical Society
	2000	Fellow of IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)

Professional affiliations

US Biophysical Society, German Biophysical Society, Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH), American Chemical Society (ACS), International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Wiener Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (WIGIP)

Ongoing projects (a selection)

“Naturphilosophie”, interdisciplinary approaches to impact and theory of science: evolution and inheritance, foundations of homoeopathy, system theory, constructivism, comparative (intercultural) epistemology,

Evolution theory,

the "second phylogenic system of memory"

History of ideas in the works of: Pasteur, Bertalanffy, Sheldrake

Organization of meetings (a selection):

Symposium: Wissenschaft in Indien (Ayurveda, Indische Erkenntnissysteme, Moderne Wissenschaft im Indischen Milieu), Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wien 1996 (on behalf of DIALOG, Institut für Interkulturelle Beziehungen, and in collaboration with the Österreichisch-Indischen Gesellschaft)

International workshop: phylogenic memory, Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wien 2006

Editiorial projects:

FACC Symposium on Size-Exclusion Chromatography, Philadelphia 1992 (together with P.L. Dubin), published as a special volume of J. Chromatography in 1993.

Strategies in Size-Exclusion Chromatography (together with P. L. Dubin), published as a book (ACS Symposium Series 635) with the American Chemical Society Press in 1996.

Surrealism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis (an interdisciplinary, international collaborative project), published as a special issue of Weg und Ziel in 1997 [Vol. 55(2)].

Science and other systems of belief, workshop published in: F. Brinkhuis, S. Talmor, Eds., Memory, History and Critique. European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the 5th International ISSEI Conference at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 1996, [CD-ROM] MIT-Press, Cambridge MA, 1998.

Self-Image and popular narratives on science, workshop published in: Sascha Talmor, Rachel Ben-David Eds., Twentieth Century European Narratives: Tradition & Innovation. Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), organized at the University of Haifa in Israel (August 16-21, 1998), [CD-ROM] Published by ISSEI, 2001. [ISBN: 965-555-067-2]

Types of phylogenic memory: the intersecting theories of memetics, morphic fields, semiotics, colletcive agency, and theatrum mundi, workshop published in: Enrique Banaus, Ed., The Narrative of Modernity: Co-Existence of Differences. Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), organized in cooperation with the University of Pamplona in Spain (August 2-7, 2004), [CD-ROM] in the press

The science and history of evolutionary theory, workshop published in: Henry Frendo, Ed., The European Mind: Narrative and Identity. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), organized in cooperation with the University of Malta in Malta (July 24-29, 2006), [CD-ROM] in the press

Publications (a selection):

M. Potschka, Inverse Size Exclusion Chromatography and Universal Calibration, Macromol. Symp. 110:121-154 (1996)

M. Potschka, Im Dickicht der Religionen. Unterschiedliche Aspekte des Buddhismus, Weg und Ziel 54(5):39-46(1996)

M. Potschka, Die Konstruktion von Verbindlichkeit, in: F. Wallner, B. Agnese, Eds., Von der Einheit des Wissens zur Vielfalt der Wissensformen, Braumüller, Wien 1997, p. 101-131.

Y. Zhu, M. Potschka, P. L. Dubin, C.-H. Cai, A method for quantitation of charge by Size-Exclusion Chromatography demonstrated with components of Ficoll 400, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 202: 61-72 (2001)

last update: 1.10.06