Günter Küppers

Günter Küppers (* 1939 in Munich ) is a German physicist , social scientist and philosopher in the field of science research and systems theory, particularly in applications to knowledge production and planning processes. As managing director and member of the board of directors, he played a key role in the establishment and development of the Institute for Science and Technology Research (IWT) at Bielefeld University .

Life

And Küppers studied theoretical physics graduate and doctorate at the University of Munich on structure formation processes in liquid currents . With this work he made a significant contribution to the theory of self-organization and chaos research . In 1992 he completed his habilitation in the field of science research at the University of Vienna. From 1969 to 1974 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching near Munich , and from 1974 to 1993 he was managing director of the University of Science Research at Bielefeld University . After its conversion to the Institute for Science and Technology Research in 1993, he was a member of the board until he left in 2004. In 1998 he was visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna . Since 2010 he has been a guest lecturer at the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche founded by Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini.

Küppers is the author of numerous papers in the field of theoretical physics (self-organization, chaos, plasma heating), science research (knowledge production, computer simulation, innovation networks) and their application to complex planning processes (complex systems, knowledge and ignorance).

Trivia

Since retiring from professional life, he has devoted himself increasingly to cooking. In 2008 he was the weekly winner in the ZDF television program Die Küchenschlacht and consequently also cooked in the television program Cooking at Kerner .

See also

• Küppers-Lortz instability

Work (selection)

• G. Küppers: The stability of steady finite amplitude convection in a rotating fluid layer . In: Physics Letters A . tape 32 , no. 1 , June 1970, p. 7-8 , doi : 10.1016 / 0375-9601 (70) 90052-6 .
• G. Küppers: On the Relation between Technology and Science - Goals of Knowledge and Dynamics of Theories, the Example of Combustion Technology, Thermodynamics and Fluidmechanics. In: W. Krohn, E. Layton, P. Weingart (eds.): The Dynamics of Science and Technology. The Yearbook of the Sociology of the Sciences, Vol. II, Reidel, Dordrecht 1978
• G. Küppers: Fusion research - for target orientation in the field of basic research. In: W. vd Daele, W. Krohn, P. Weingart (ed.): Planned research. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1979, pp. 287–327, (with W. Krohn)
• W. Krohn, G. Küppers: Science as a Selforganized System - Outline of a Theoretical Model. In: W. Krohn, G. Küppers, H. Nowotny (eds.): Selforganization - Portrait of a Scientific Revolution. Sociology of the Sciences, A Yearbook, Vol. 14, Reidel, Dordrecht 1990
• W. Krohn, G. Küppers, W. Nowak: Recursive Interaction and the Dynamics of Knowledge Production in Researchs: An Empirical Simulation of Knowledge Production. In: W. Tschacher, G. Schiepek , EJ Brunner (eds.): Self-organization and Clinical Psychology. Springer Series in Synergetics, Vol. 58, Springer, Heidelberg a. a. 1992, pp. 434-451
• G. Küppers: Social Order. In: H. Haken, A. Mikhailov (eds.): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nonlinear Complex Systems, Springer, Heidelberg 1993, pp.127-137
• G. Küppers: Coping with Uncertainty - The Selforganization of Social Systems. In: V. Cantoni, A. Setti, V. Di Gesù, D. Tegolo (eds.): Human and Machine Perception: Emergence, Attention, and Creativity. Plenum Publishing Corporation, Pavia. 1999
• A. Pyka, G. Küppers (ed.): Innovation Networks: Theory and Practice. Edward Elger Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2002.
• G. Küppers, E .H. Hüser: Laboratory of Desires - On the culture of eating and drinking. Kleine Verlag Bielefeld, Bielefeld 2005.
• J. Lenhard, G. Küppers, T. Shinn (ed.): Simulations: Pragmatic Constructions of Reality. Berlin: Springer, 2006 (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Vol. 25).