Professor Marcin J. Schroeder
Marcin J. Schroeder, Ph.D. is a Polish-Japanese Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist. He is Professor Emeritus at Akita International University, Japan, Professor at Tohoku University, and Vice President of Research at the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI).
Marcin is known for creating a conceptual framework for studying information with a novel mathematical, algebraic formalism for information, its integration, dynamics, and computation.
His research interests are twofold. He continues his many-year work in mathematics and information science while simultaneously engaging in research related to higher education.
In the recent decade, Marcin’s research interests and expertise in the first direction have focused on mathematical, scientific, and philosophical aspects of information, its integration, and dynamics, with a special emphasis on the use of the concept of symmetry. These include mathematical models of information and computation, including its unconventional forms, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and theoretical modeling of consciousness, complexity, and logic.
Read An alternative to entropy in the measurement of information, Quantum Coherence without Quantum Mechanics in Modeling the Unity of Consciousness, and Dualism of Selective and Structural Manifestations of Information in Modelling of Information Dynamics.
He is focused on the generalization of the formalism for symmetry (invariance) without coordinates to complex systems, in particular to information. His primary research methods are general algebra, closure spaces, lattice theory, partially ordered sets, algebraic methods of symmetry studies, and general topology. Read From philosophy to theory of information.
His present work is on meta-symmetry (symmetry of symmetries) based on a general theory of symmetry without coordinatization developed in his earlier work. In cooperation with a group of researchers, including Arran Gare, Robert Root-Bernstein, Otto Rössler, and the Nobel Prize winner Brian Josephson, Marcin is currently engaged in several long-term research initiatives in Biomathics that develop innovative formal tools for the study of life. Read iBioMath.
Marcin’s research and expertise related to education documented in publications are related to his educational and administrative responsibilities. He is focused on liberal arts education, international education, and relations between science, technology, and humanities. In recent years, he engaged in an extensive study of educational methods to integrate continuously separating forms of knowledge in science, technology, and humanities. The same theme is the subject of his editorial work.
Marcin established the international academic journal Philosophies on an invitation from MDPI and has served as its Editor-in-Chief since 2015. The journal’s mission is to reintegrate philosophy, science, and cultural studies. Read Philosophical Foundations for the Concept of Information: Selective and Structural Information.
Since 2019, Marcin has been a Specially Appointed Professor at the Global Learning Center at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, where he teaches courses in Probability and Statistics, linear algebra A, and linear algebra B.
In 2020, he was awarded the honorary title of Professor Emeritus for his involvement in establishing Akita International University in Akita, Japan. At this university, he has developed and taught undergraduate-level courses for more than twenty years.
Marcin was the President of IS4SI between 2019 and 2021 and has been a member of the IS4SI Board since 2017, currently serving as the Vice President for Research.
Previously, Marcin was the Head of Basic Education and Professor of Mathematics at Akita International University between 2004 and 2019. He was also the Dean of Academic Affairs between 2004 and 2012 and between 2017 and 2019.
In 2019, he was the Director of the Active Learning and Assessment Center (ALAC) and Director of the Academic Excellence Center at Akita International University.
He is a Member of the Board of the Special Interest Group on Natural Computing in The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and a Member of the Advisory Board for Preprints.org.
Since 2022, he has been the Academic President of the International Society for Interdisciplinary Studies of Symmetry (SIS). In addition to publishing the results of his research and editing research publication initiatives, he frequently organizes and chairs academic conferences.
Marcin earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, USA, with his dissertation titled Dependance Systems. He earned his Master’s Degree of Science in Theoretical Physics in 1976 from the University of Wroclaw with his thesis titled Operator Calculus on a Phase Space.
Marcin started his career as an Assistant in 1976 and Senior Assistant in 1980 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Wroclaw until 1987. He continued as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Mathematics and, in 1991, an Instructor of Mathematics at Southern Illinois University.
In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Olney Central College in Olney, Illinois and an Instructor of Mathematics at Service for Disabled Students at Southern Illinois University.
Between 1993 and 2003, Marcin was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Minnesota State University Akita, in Akita, Japan, where he also served for many years as Chair of the GE Department, Dean of Academic Affairs, and Director of Academic Programs. In the following years, he helped establish Akita International University, where he was engaged in the planning and implementing of several successful applications for ministerial (MEXT) grants, such as Global Human Resources and Super-Global University.
Read The Philosophy of Philosophies: Synthesis through Diversity.
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