BIOMATRIX GROUP
György Járos
​György Járos is the co-originator of Biomatrix theory and the driving force behind the Biomatrix Research Group.
Between 1980-1994 he was the Hyman Goldberg Professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, where he was supervisor for the PhD theses of each member of the Biomatrix Research Group and inspired their scientific activities. Apart from the above positions he has held teaching and research posts in physiology and biomedical engineering at the universities of the Witwatersrand, Pretoria, Strasbourg, Mississippi, Sydney, Stellenbosch and Budapest, as well as at Bond University and Siemens AG Germany. He is presently a Biomatrix Systems Consultant, based at Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia.
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His qualifications include a BSc (Engineering), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (1963); MSc (Engineering), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (1967) and DSc (Physiology), University of Pretoria, South Africa (1975) György is Hungarian by birth, but has lived in South Africa for 35 years, in England, France, USA and Germany for short periods of time, and since 1995 he has been based in Australia. He loves swimming, walking, art and music.
Anacreon Cloete
Anacreon Cloete is the co-originator of Biomatrix theory. His main research focus within the Biomatrix Research Group is the naturosphere (especially physics and biology).
Professionally, he is a consultant in general systems theory in conjunction with other members of the Biomatrix Research Group.
His PhD entitled The Biomatrix Model: The Development and Formalisation of a General Systems Model is published as a book. As a researcher his current focus is on a search for universal principles of organisation relevant to all systems. He has a special interest in the fields of biology, theoretical physics, ecology and cosmology.
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His qualifications include a BEng (Electronic), Rand Afrikanse University, South Africa (1981); MSc (Biomedical), University of Cape Town, South Africa (1986) and PhD (General systems theory), University of Cape Town, South Africa (1999)
Besides his passion for the latest in scientific research, he loves spending time in nature and exploring the mysteries of life.
Elisabeth Dostal
Elisabeth Dostal’s contribution to the Biomatrix Research Group is the integration of various general systems concepts and approaches into Biomatrix Theory and the application of the theory in the Biomatrix Design Methodology for transforming social systems and dissolving their complex problems.
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Professionally, she is a futurist, management educator and management consultant and she is the founder and director of BiomatrixWeb. She holds a PhD in Systems Theory from University of Cape Town, South Africa and a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences from Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria.
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Elisabeth Dostal grew up in Austria. During a visit to South Africa she met her husband and settled in Cape Town where she has lived for over 40 years. She loves nature, dancing and meeting her friends over bottomless cups of coffee. She is deeply interested in research on human potential and in the exploration of her own.
Lynn Edwards
Lynn Edwards’ contributions to the Biomatrix Research Group are the systemic exploration of the psychosphere and keeping it focused on human development.
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Professionally, she is a practicing psychologist in private praxis, specialising in life patterning and health and lifestyle related counselling. Prior to this she was Deputy Director of the Cancer Association for six years.
Her qualifications include a Diploma in nursing; Bachelor degree in social science from UCT (1981); Honours degree in social science from UNISA (1983); Master’s degree in psychology from the University of Cape Town (1987); Doctor of philosophy (General systems theory) from the University of Cape Town (1996).
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Throughout her involvement with the Biomatrix Research Group, Lynn managed to juggle family life, a job and her ongoing search for knowledge in an amazingly relaxed manner. As toddlers, her three sons were an integral part of the Biomatrix Research Group, playing happily throughout its meetings. Lynn loves hiking with her family around the mountains of Cape Town. Another favourite activity is reading.
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Linda Muller
Linda contributes to the Biomatrix Research Group through the metaphor and medium of music and universal harmony.
The Biomatrix notion of an underlying web of organised wave patterns, analogous to the wave-particle perspective in physics, resonates with the ancient speculative music views of the world. These are based on the doctrine of the music of the spheres, as expounded in the Pythagorean-Platonic tradition, in which the whole universe is created and sustained according to the principles of music. Whereas previously, music was depicted as an inherent expression of universal harmony, it has in our time, in Western culture, become abstracted as ‘absolute’ or autonomous music with an objective existence. Reviving the metaphysical speculations of a mediated musical universe as part of our systems of inquiry, requires an epistemological shift to include metaphoric, aesthetic and intuitive modes of knowing and consciousness, i.e. as ‘a frame of mind’ rather than a separate ‘body of knowledge’.
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As a professional performer her engagements included performances with the Cape Performing Arts Board Orchestra and Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. She has also lectured in percussion performance and music education programmes at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch.
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During the first decade of South Africa’s democracy she initiated a series of education development projects with special interest in multi-cultural methods development, as well as presenting her programmes as a guest lecturer at various universities and music centres in Sweden and Norway.
Her qualifications include a Degree in music, Higher diploma in education, Master’s degree (with distinction) in music performance and PhD on creating a meta-framework of inquiry through the systems and speculative music worldviews.Linda’s life is music. She plays it, researches it, teaches it, entertains with it and regards it as the basis of human development.