We are happy to announce that our first keynote speaker on Wednesday, September 10th will be Prof. (em.) Dr. M. Jischa, Honorary President of the German Chapter Club of Rome. The topic of his keynote will be “Technology drives civilisation dynamics – but do we have a target?”. This keynote will be publicly accessible.

Michael F. Jischa, born 1937 in Hamburg, studied Mechanical Engineering in Hamburg (Ingenieurschule) and Karlsruhe (TH, now KIT). PhD and “Habilitation” for Fluid Dynamics at TU Berlin, Associate Professor at Institute for Thermo- and Fluiddynamics Univ. Bochum, Full Professor for Fluiddynamics at Univ. Essen and finally Full Professor for Applied Mechanics at TU Clausthal. Visiting Professor at Universities in Haifa (Technion), Marseille, Shanghai and Gdansk (Danzig). Retired 2002.

The poster “Jischa’s Messages” is available here.