My path
		as a scientist started between engineering, economics and social sciences, from the perspective of the natural scientist that I have been since childhood. For about ten years I followed the "scientific career path" up to the position of a German university lecturer. Several projects, funded by State, Country, private foundations, industry and the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" concentrated on the complexity of organisations, planning, controlling, mainly using linear and cybernetic models. I taught technical subjects and methods of scientific working, both the theory and in pracitical work such as laboratories, seminars, diploma and PhD theses.  As part of the German university system I recognized two main constraints: regarding the scientific content a growing specialization, combined with a loss of understanding of the sciences as a whole and of the importance of basic holistic research work as the common base, also for special, more application oriented disciplines regarding the methods a strong belief in traditional doctrines, combined with a lack of tolerance or simple ignoring of approaches that were developed in the "wrong" discipline or that are "not scientific" because of an ostensible lack of scientific background ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
		My focus
		changed and I started to follow another path: away from the more application oriented research work and the structures of a public university system, towards the idea of "advanced sciences". This means advanced, innovative, and, wherever possible free scientific work in research and teaching between traditional disciplines and at their borders. For me these borders are not really borders, for me they are transitions to white spots on an open map. An important element of advanced sciences is critical discussion of the established scientific methods reflecting new scientific results and conclusions. Today my work concentrates on the following: The systemic perspective: living systems, which are characterized by an aspiration towards order. For me this is fundamental for several kinds of systems, so that not only natural but also technical, social, and hybrid systems may become "living". The systemic phenomenological perspective: biosensibility, the ability of a living system to perceive influences, especially influences that cannot be measured or scientifically explained by the established state of the art. The model perspective: selected approaches for explanation. Apart from the generally accepted linear and cybernetic logic there may be analogue/ symbolic/ reflecting models as well as models of the "whole in one". The model phenomenological perspective: the complementary, the completing supplement. The phenomenon of the complementary that may be seen in and between living systems advises adequate complementary scientific theories.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------