Markus, Mario

Mario Markus, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dortmund, Germany, was born in Santiago de Chile, where he lived for twenty years, except for one year as an exchange student in Oklahoma. He studied Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, where he earned his PhD in 1973. Later on he became a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute in Dortmund. He has published more than 160 scientific articles in international journals about self- organization and chaos in Chemistry, Physics and Biology. His first poetry book, Poemas de Invierno appeared 1990 in Madrid. In 2005 he won a contest through