Professor Werner Gitt

German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, Braunschweig

The origin of life from the viewpoint of information. All living organisms require information to function. It is the cornerstone of life, yet often overlooked. In order to understand the origin of life, we first have to explain what information is and how it came about.

Professor Werner Gitt PhD Eng was Director and Professor of the Information Technology Division at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology in Braunschweig, Germany from 1978-2002. His pioneering research, published in numerous scientific journals, was in the field of information science, numerical mathematics and control engineering.