Jan Walleczek | PhD

Jan Walleczek, PhD

Scientific Director

“Are the foundations of science fixed or are they open to future revision?”

Jan Walleczek, Ph.D. serves as Scientific Director of Paradox Science Institute. He lives in Berlin, Germany, where he founded Phenoscience Laboratories. Previously, he was Director of the Fetzer Franklin Fund of the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust, and Director of the Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory at Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California.

Jan studied biology at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, followed by doctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, and post-doctoral work at the Research Medicine and Radiation Biophysics Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley.

Jan brings a diverse range of research expertise. His scientific publications cover the fields of biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, and psychology. His work includes the foundations of quantum mechanics and the application to living systems of concepts such as quantum coherence, emergent dynamics, and the flow of information, a long-standing interest that he summarized as edited volumes for Cambridge University Press titled “Self-organized biological dynamics and nonlinear control” and MDPI Press titled “Emergent quantum mechanics.” This includes publications on quantum nonlocality and its relation to agency and the conscious observer with a focus on the possibility of anomalous phenomena.

Jan’s passion includes metascience as well as the philosophy and foundations of science. By joining Paradox Science Institute, Jan seeks to expand the frontiers of science by developing advanced methodologies for investigating claimed anomalous phenomena in consciousness research and beyond.