About AINS

Our research interests focus on aspects of the topics of emergence and nonlinearity in quantum theory, theoretical biology, medicine, and complexity theory.
Our small institute was founded in 1990, as a group of independent researchers. The funding is completely private. We are in contact, and sometimes in collaboration, with a number of national and international research institutions and scientists.

AINS Team

Siegfried Fussy

born in Graz (Austria) in 1957; University (Physics and Astronomy) in Vienna; dissertation on the mass generation of the first quark generation via radiative corrections; graduation as Ph.D. 1988; then scientific member of the Institute of Medium Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, international experiments on Myon Catalyzed Fusion at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland until 1991; Founding member of the Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Vienna, since 1990.
Siegfried Fussy was born in Graz (Austria) in 1957; University (Physics and Astronomy) in Vienna; dissertation on the mass generation of the first quark generation via radiative corrections; graduation as Ph.D. 1988; then scientific member of the Institute of Medium Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, international experiments on Myon Catalyzed Fusion at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland until 1991; Founding member of the Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Vienna, since 1990.

Gerhard Grössing (1957-2019)

Gerhard studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Vienna; Teaching Assistant at Iowa State University and Research Assistant in High Energy Physics at Ames Lab. (USA) in 1979/80; graduation as M.S. 1980; dissertation on quark jets at the University of Vienna; graduation as Ph.D. 1983; then: research projects at the Atominstitut, Vienna, including, since 1984, the development of „Quantum Cellular Automata“ (QCA) and the development of „Quantum Cybernetics“. Founding member and director of the Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies (AINS), Vienna, since 1990. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Cybernetics and Systems, Taylor & Francis, since 1999. Founding and Board member of the Heinz von Foerster – Gesellschaft, since 2000. Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Fetzer-Franklin Fund, since 2012. It is in deep sadness that we announce the passing of Gerhard Groessing on 7th January 2019.

Herbert Schwabl

born in Vienna in 1961; Technical University (Physics) in Vienna; graduation as Ph.D. 1994. Scientific work in the fields of environmental sciences, self organization and complementary medicine. Founding member of the Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Vienna, since 1990. Currently CEO of Padma AG for Tibetan remedies in Wetzikon, Switzerland.

Johannes Mesa Pascasio

born in Bludenz (Austria) in 1970; Technical University Vienna (Electrical and Communications Engineering); research and development at Leica in Switzerland until 1997; research projects on theoretical electrodynamics and microelectronics at respective institutes at TU Vienna; since then development of program systems for scientific computation. Graduation as Ph.D. (Physics) at the Vienna University of Technology in 2017.