Born in 1961 in Frankfurt (West-Germany).

Grew up in Friedberg (Hessen, West-Germany).

Now lives in Bad Nauheim (Germany).

I wanted to become an astronaut, but had to change my career plans when my elementary school teacher told me that NASA doesn't take girls.

So here's what I did instead:

-1981: Alliance Francaise, Paris (3ème degré).
-1986: University of Kassel: (summa cum laude in Art, Visual Communication, Pedagogics,
English Studies).
-1991: University of Kassel: Studies in Philosophy.

-1993: Studienseminar Kassel: Final certificate exam. Teacher training at Jacob-Grimm-Schule and Heinrich-Schütz-Schule in Kassel.

-1997: Director of Vrobel Express- Übersetzungen: Translation Service (English, German, Chinese)
1997-: Founder and Director of the Institute for Fractal Research
1996-: Author of language textbooks (English, Business English, Chinese), lecturer on Web-Based Training, eLearning, translation, English, Business-English, etc.
1999-: Director of eLearning Content Deutschland: http://www.e-learning-content.de -2000: Teacher at the Free Waldorf School Kassel
2004-: Director of Letzte-Ruhe-im-Virtuellen-Raum http://www.letzte-ruhe-im-virtuellen-raum.de
2006-: Director of Free Science Press http://www.free-science-press.com
2006-: Curator of Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) http://www.contemporary-art-gallery.de -------------------- 2008-2010 Teacher at the Free Waldorf School Wetterau. ----- 2010- Teacher at Burggymnasium Friedberg.

Affiliations

Director of the Institute for Fractal Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Member of the International Advisory Board of Nonlinear Science and Applications (NSA), The Shanghai Society for Nonlinear Science, Shanghai, China.

Member of CHAOS ASBL, The Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems, University of Liège, Belgium.

Member of The Society of Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences (SCTPLS), Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Member of the Editorial Board of Fractal Spacetime and Noncommutative Geometry in Quantum and High Energy Physics, Hongkong, China.

Awards

Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award. International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics. Baden-Baden 2009.

Best Paper Award for the Symposium Cognition, Psychology, Conscious Mind, Intention, Perception and Communication. CASYS, Liège 2009.

Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award. International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics. Baden-Baden 2010.

Theater and Musical

Susie Vrobel: The Reincarnation of the Turtle. (1984). A Susical in Two Acts.

Susie Vrobel: Strange Loops. (1986) A Play.

Songs

(download these mp3 files for personal use only)

My next gig: 4 March 2008 at the Schlachthof Kassel (Acoustic Bar) 21:00h.

The way you look tonight

Summertime

These boots are made for walking

La vie en rose

Elvis: Fools rush in

Everly Brothers: Dream

Sealed with a kiss

Feeling groovy

Volare

Love potion number 9

Mack the knife

Light my fire

Daydream believer

La gualante du pauvre Jean

I got a name

Paintings

Have a look at my paintings.

Poems

Of Wousts and Frowls

eLearning publications

IT & Business - Englisch für Geschäftsleute im Informationszeitalter

Business Communicator

Let's Learn ... Prepositions

http://www.e-learning-content.de

Susie Vrobel: How to make Nature blush: On the construction of a temporal fractal interface. University of Lancaster, Ambleside, U.K. 1999.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time & Nested Detectors. First IMA Conference on Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Techniques, Algorithms and Applications. DeMontford University Leicester, U.K. 2000.

Susie Vrobel: Reality Generation - On the Construction of a Temporal Fractal Interface (Complexity in the Living, Rome 2004)

Susie Vrobel: A Description of Entropy as a Level-Bound Quantity. CASYS 05 - Seventh International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems. HEC-ULg, Liège, Belgium 2005.

Susie Vrobel: A Nested Detector with a Fractal Temporal Interface. CASYS 05 - Seventh International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems. HEC-ULg, Liège, Belgium 2005.

Susie Vrobel: The Nested Structure of the Now. Ninth Annual Conference of The Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society: Reconstructing Consciousness, Mind and Being. University of Oxford, St. Anne's College, U.K. 2005.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time in Cognitive Processes. 2nd International Nonlinear Sciences Conference. Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 2006.

Susie Vrobel: Nesting Performances Generate Simultaneity: Towards a Definiton of Interface Complexity. European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Vienna, Austria, April 2006.

Susie Vrobel: Temporal Observer Perspectives. InterSymp, August 2006, Baden-Baden, Germany. The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS).

Susie Vrobel: Sheer Simultaneity: Fractal Time Condensation. InterSymp, August 2006, Baden-Baden, Germany. The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS).

Susie Vrobel: Simultaneity and Contextualization: The Now's Fractal Event Horizon. 13th Herbstakademie: Cognition and Embodiment. Ascona, Switzerland, October 2006.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Temporal Observer Perspectives Arise From Embodied Cognition. EURO XXII - 22nd European Conference on Operational Research, 8-11 July 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.

Susie Vrobel: The Extended Observer Revisited. (Invited Paper) 19th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. 30 July - 4 August 2007, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time. 19th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. 30 July - 4 August 2007, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Susie Vrobel: Cognitive Aspects of Fractal Time. 19th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. 30 July - 4 August 2007, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Susie Vrobel:The Kairos Syndrome (draft paper). CASYS '07: International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems. 6-11 August 2007, Liège, Belgium.

Susie Vrobel: Time Slows Down in Nows Deprived of Their Anticipatory Faculty (draft paper). CASYS '07: International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems. 6-11 August 2007, Liège, Belgium.

Susie Vrobel: Time Dilation and Condensation:Our Judgement of Duration is Based on Content.
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Vienna, Austria, 25-28 March 2008.

Susie Vrobel & John Hiller: On Observer Extensions and Roles. 20th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. July 2008, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Susie Vrobel:Intramission vs. Extramission. 20th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. July 2008, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Susie Vrobel:Transitional Objects and Transcended Boundaries as Observer Extensions. (Invited Paper) InterSymp: 21st International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. August 2009, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Susie Vrobel: CASYS '09: The Extended Mind: Coupling Environment and Brain. International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems. August 2009, Liège, Belgium.

Susie Vrobel:CASYS '09: The Transitional Object as a Precursor to Strong Anticipation. International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems. August 2009, Liège, Belgium.

Susie Vrobel: Negotiable boundaries. European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Vienna, Austria, April 2010.

Susie Vrobel: Winnicott's Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Internalization of the Exterior and Externalization of the Interior. University of Ghent, Belgium, April 2010.

Susie Vrobel: When Time Slows Down: The Joys and Woes of De-Nesting. InterSymp: 22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. 2-6 August 2010, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Susie Vrobel: A Second Eye and Wings for the Cyclops. InterSymp: 23rd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. 1-5 August 2011, Baden-Baden, Germany.

forthcoming talks

Susie Vrobel: Models of Embodied Cognition. Operations Research (OR 2012), Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-11 July 2011.

Susie Vrobel: Contextualzation as a Way of Freeing Oneself of Context. InterSymp: 22nd International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. 30 July-3 August 2012, Baden-Baden, Germany.

Talks and workshops on other topics

Übersetzungsübungen Deutsch - Englisch: Translation Skills (Hueber Informationszentrum, München 1996)

Einführung in die chinesische Sprache: Grundkurs Chinesisch (VHS Kiel 1999)

Übersetzungsübungen Deutsch - Englisch: Translation Skills (VHS Hamburg & Rendsburg 2000)

Business English: Web-Based Training (Multimedia und Internet im berufsorientierten Fremdsprachenunterricht, Trier 2000)

eLearning: Englisch Online für Fortgeschrittene (ZWH - Zentralstelle für die Weiterbildung im Handwerk, Düsseldorf 2001)

eLearning: Einbettung von eLearning - Kursen in einen Präsenzunterricht: Englisch für Fortgeschrittene & Business English (Max-Hueber Verlag, Dortmund 2001)

eLearning: Web-Based Training: Fremdsprachenlernen der Zukunft (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 2001)

Susie Vrobel: "Ice Cubes And Hot Water Bottles" in: Fractals. An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Complex Geometry of Nature. Vol. 5 No. 1, 1997 World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 145ff.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time. The Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Houston 1998.

Susie Vrobel: "Fractal Time and the Gift of Natural Constraints" in: Tempos in Science and Nature: Structures, Relations, Complexity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Volume 879, New York 1999, pp. 172-179.

Susie Vrobel: "How to Make Nature Blush: On the Construction of a Fractal Temporal Interface" in: D.S. Broomhead, E.A: Luchinskaya, P.V.E. McCLintock and T. Mullin (Eds.), Stochastics and Chaotic Dynamics in the Lakes: STOCHAOS. AIP (American Institute of Physics) New York 2000, pp. 557-561.

Susie Vrobel: "Fractal Time and Nested Detectors" in Proceedings of the First IMA Conference on Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Techniques, Algorithms and Applications. DeMontfort University, Leicester, U.K. 2004.

Susie Vrobel: "Reality Generation" in: Complexity in the Living (Conference Proceedings). Rome 2004, pp. 60-77.

Susie Vrobel: A Description of Entropy as a Level-Bound Quantity. CASYS - International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 17. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, CHAOS, Liège, Belgium 2006, pp. 123-136.

Susie Vrobel: A Nested Detector with a Fractal Temporal Interface. CASYS - International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 17. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, CHAOS, Liège, Belgium 2006, pp. 366-376.

Susie Vrobel: Nesting Performances Generate Simultaneity: Towards a Definiton of Interface Complexity, in: Robert Trappl (Ed.): Cybernetics and Systems 2006. Vol.2, pp. 375-380 (Proceedings of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research). Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies. Vienna, Austria 2006.

Susie Vrobel: Sheer Simultaneity: Fractal Time Condensation (invited paper). (Proceedings of Intersymp 2006) The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics. (forthcoming).

Susie Vrobel: Temporal Observer Perspectives. IIAS-Transactions on Systems Research and Cybernetics. Edited by Gerorge E. Lasker, Vol VII, No. 1, 2007, Tecumseh, Canada, pp. 1.10.

Susie Vrobel: Temporal Observer Perspectives (shortened version). In: SCTPLS Newsletter. Volume 14, No. 1, Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences, October 2006.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time, Observer Perspectives and Levels of Description in Nature (Review Paper). In: Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics (EJTP) Special Issue 2007.

Susie Vrobel:The Kairos Syndrome (draft paper). International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 20. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, CHAOS, Liège, Belgium 2007, pp. 153-162.

Susie Vrobel: Time Slows Down in Nows Deprived of Their Anticipatory Faculty (draft paper). International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 21. Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, CHAOS, Liège, Belgium 2007, pp. 85-96.

Susie Vrobel: The Extended Observer Revisited. (Invited Paper) Systems Research and Cognition. Edited by George E. Lasker and Michele Malatesta, Tecumseh, Canada, pp. 1-6.

Susie Vrobel: Time Dilation and Condensation: Our Judgement of Duration is Based on Content, in: Robert Trappl (Ed.): Cybernetics and Systems 2008. (Proceedings of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research). Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies. Vienna, Austria, pp. 295-298. sneak preview

Susie Vrobel & John Hiller: On Observer Extensions and Roles. Personal and Spiritual Development in the World of Cultural DIversity. Volume V. Edited by Geroge E. Lasker and Kensei Hiwaki, Tecumseh, Canada, pp. 55-60.

Susie Vrobel:Transitional Objects and Transcended Boundaries as Observer Extensions. (Invited Paper) InterSymp: 21st International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. Conference Proceedings 2009, Tecumseh, Canada (in press).

Susie Vrobel: Negotiable boundaries. in: Robert Trappl (Ed.): Cybernetics and Systems 2010. (Proceedings of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research). Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies. Vienna, Austria, pp. 224-229.

Susie Vrobel: When Time Slows Down: The Joys and Woes of De-Nesting. In: Acta Systemica, Vol. X, No.1 (2010) (ed. George E. Lasker, IIAS, Tecumseh, ON, Canada, pp. 33-40.

Susie Vrobel: Observer Perspectives and In:Crossing in Complexity: Interdisciplinary Application of Physics in Biological and Social Systems. (Ed. Ignazio Licata and Ammar Sakaji, Nova Science Publishers, 2010.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time: Why a Watched Kettle Never Boils. World Scientific, Singapore 2011.

Susie Vrobel: CASYS '09: The Extended Mind: Coupling Environment and Brain. AIP Conf. Proc. Volume 1303 (November 2010), Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, CHAOS, Liège, Belgium 2011, pp. 277-282.

Susie Vrobel:CASYS '09: The Transitional Object as a Precursor to Strong Anticipation. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Vol. 23, Edited by Daniel M. Dubois, CHAOS, Liège, Belgium 2011, pp. 97-102.

Susie Vrobel: A Second Eye and Wings for the Cyclops. In: Acta Systemica, Vol. XI, No.1 (2011), Ed. George E. Lasker, IIAS, Tecumseh, ON, Canada, pp. 27-33.

Susie Vrobel: Fractal Time and Fractal Spacetime: Phenomenology or Ontology? In: Fractal Spacetime and Noncommutative Geometry in Quantum and High Energy Physics. Edited by Ji-Huan He, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011, Asian Academic Publisher Limited, Hongkong, China, pp. 55-58.


Online publications on the topic of Fractal Research

Serge F. Timashev and Susie Vrobel: A New Dialogue with Nature: Fractal Time and Flicker-Noise Spectroscopy. IF Papers 1/2004.

Susie Vrobel: Nesting and De-Nesting Exercises: A Differentiation of Observer Types Based on the Failure to Use Context. IF Papers 2/2005.

Susie Vrobel & Otto van Nieuwenhuijze: And Eternity in an Hour. IF Papers 1/2006.

Susie Vrobel: Introducing Prime Space. IF Papers 2/2006.

Publications in other fields:

see my full publications list