Marcin J. Schroeder, Ph.D. was the President of IS4SI in the years 2019-2021 and has been a member of the IS4SI Board since 2017, currently as the Vice-President for Research.
He has been a member of the academic community for almost 50 years as a faculty of several universities in Poland, USA, and Japan active in several disciplines of study from Theoretical Physics, Mathematics, Logic, to Philosophy, Intercultural Communication, Education, and Cultural Studies. In recent decades, the focus of his academic activity is on philosophy and mathematical modelling of information, its dynamics (computation), and its integration with a special emphasis on the use of the concept of symmetry. For many years, in addition to teaching in several universities he held administrative faculty positions of a Chair of Department, Dean of Academic Affairs, Director of Academic Center for Learning Excellence, etc. For his involvement in establishing Akita International University in Akita, Japan he was awarded the honorary title of Professor Emeritus. Since 2015 he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophies published by MDPI. Since 2022 he is the Academic President of the International Society for Interdisciplinary Studies of Symmetry (SIS). In addition to publishing the results of his research, editing research publication initiatives, he is frequently engaged in the organization and chairing of academic conferences.
