Shyam Wuppuluri is a fellow at RIFS Potsdam. As an independent researcher, he has long standing interests in philosophy, interdisciplinary approaches in the foundations of sciences & humanities and deep ecology. Bringing together the world's foremost scientists and thought leaders, he has published numerous interdisciplinary volumes - with a goal of laying holistic bridges between what he calls "conceptual islands" that lie far away from one another.

However, his pursuit of knowledge had taken a strange turn last year, when he lived in Einstein's own house tucked into the Caputh forest, as an Albert-Einstein fellow. In the silence of the forest, asking himself "What would we do with all our knowledge about black holes and galaxies, if we don't have our rivers and soil?" - he understood that one can't survive on eating the thick textbooks and treatises published about the universe. His current work thereby is a continuation of a fundamental vow he made to himself: to not bear the slightest pretense to inquire about those aspects in sciences and philosophy, that one doesn't otherwise inquire in the depths of the heart and to keep one's mind and heart together while doing science.