Elias Zafiris

Elias Zafiris holds an M.Sc. (Distinction) in “Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces”, and a Ph.D. in “Theoretical and Mathematical Physics”, both from Imperial College at the University of London. He has published research papers on a wide spectrum of topics in the interface of the conceptual and mathematical foundations of physics, ranging from the category-theoretic treatment of perennial problems in quantum mechanics and complex systems theories, to the applications of modern differential geometry and topology in general relativity and quantum gravity. He is also the author of three books on these subjects, and a core member at the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, where his research focusses on the conceptual underpinnings and the mathematical modelling of constellatory unfolding and self-referentiality in shaping a consistent categorial framework of time and reality for interrelating quantum physics with general relativity according to novel algebraic and topological linking patterns. His collaboration with the fields of architecture and arts grew out of many years of conversations on communication, computation, information and gnomonics with Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann on a natural philosophy approach, that weds physics with the arts through mathematical thinking. He is a research professor in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Athens, and he is also currently a teaching professor on Mathematical Thinking at the TU Vienna, Faculty for Architecture and Spatial Planning, Institute of Architectural Sciences, Research Unit Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics.