About Heisenberg

• The DFG Heisenberg program

The Heisenberg program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG: German Research Council) aims at supporting both, young researchers at the beginning of their scientific carrier and also senior researchers who have been working in foreign countries, to conduct cutting-edge research in Germany.

• Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg was one of the founders of modern quantum mechanics. He studied theoretical physics with Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich, with Max Born in Göttingen and with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. In 1925 he has presented a first mathematical framework for non-commutative quantities in quantum theory. In 1927 he has shown that such observables obey the famous Heisenberg uncertainty relations. In the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, Heisenberg and Bohr have related these issues to Bohr's concept of complementarity [REF].

• Quantum Cognition   
  

My own research is related to Heisenbergs work in a particular sense. Together with Harald Atmanspacher, I have shown that classical dynamical systems could exhibit quantum-like properties when the state space is subjected to a coarse-graining that does not lead to a generating partition. We refer to this situation as to the "epistemic quantization" of classical systems (REF, REF). These findíngs may also be of relevance for the relatively new field of quantum cognition.