Quantum Boundaries of Life

Roman R. Poznański is a distinguished mathematical neuroscientist and research professor in theoretical studies on the brain. As a prolific writer, he has edited several contemporary books: Biophysical Neural Networks (2001), Modeling in the Neurosciences (1999, 2005), Biophysics of Consciousness (2017), and co-authored Mathematical Neuroscience (2014). Erkki Brändas was born in Tampere, Finland in July1940 and was, as a Finnish war child, transported to Sweden in February 1942, finally adopted by his Swedish parents and given Swedish citizenship in 1947. He received his FL (PhD) in 1969 and Doctor of Philosophy (habilitation) in 1972, both at Uppsala University. Except for guest professorships in USA, Germany, Israel, he spent his professional career in Uppsala employed as Assistant- Associate- and Full Professor from 1975 until retirement in 2007. In addition to serving as chairman of the department of Quantum Chemistry, he was appointed Executive Director of the Uppsala Graduate School Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement supervising the doctoral education of 35 PhD’s from 1997-2007. He has served on various international scientific and editorial boards, e.g. Wiley, Elsevier and Springer including the service as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Series Editor of the Advances in Quantum Chemistry. He is the current President of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, since 15 years, chairing a variety of international congresses and other numerous meetings, schools and workshops. He has published over 260 articles and edited more than 50 books on fundamental theoretical chemical physics from research on atoms, molecules and solid-state physics to complex enough systems in biology – from the microscopic realm to the cosmological rank.

• 1. Is life quantum Darwinian?Erkki J. Brändas and Roman R. Poznanski2. Quantum considerations of neural memoryGerard Marx and Chaim Gilon3. Functional neural electron transportChristopher John Rourk4. Ion plasmon collective oscillations underlying saltatory conduction in myelinated axons and topological-homotopy concept of memoryWitold A. Jacak and Janusz E. Jacak5. Non-equilibrium quantum brain dynamicsAkihiro Nishiyama, Shigenori Tanaka and Jack A. Tuszynski6. Quantum protein foldingLiaofu Luo and Jun Lv7. Classical-quantum interfaces in living neural tissue supporting conscious functionsAlfredo Pereira Jr.8. Quantum transport and utilization of free energy in protein α-helicesDanko D. Georgiev and James F. Glazebrook　9. Panexperiential materialism: A physical exploration of qualitativeness in the brainRoman R. Poznanski and Erkki J. Brändas