Prof Werner Gitt:

* Well-known international speaker and author from Germany

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Gitt was born in Raineck/Prussia in 1937.

In 1963 he enrolled at the Technical university in Hanover (Technische

Hochschule Hanover) and in 1968 he completed his studies as Diplom Ingenieur.

Thereafter he worked as assistant at the Institute of Control Engineering at

the Technical University Aachen (Technische Hochschule Aachen). Following

two years research work, he received his doctorate summa cum laude together

with the prestigious "Borchers-Medal" of the Technical University Aachen in

1970.

Now as a Director and Professor at the Federal Institute of Physics and

Technology, (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig) Germany he

is Head of Information Technology. A distinguished scholar in Information

Science he has published widely in the formal scientific literature and has

given lectures on these topics at several universities in Africa, America,

Australia and Europe.

Besides his scientific publications he is well known as author of various

popular books, some of which have been translated into Bulgarian, Czech,

Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Croatian, Kirghizian, Polish, Rumanian

and Russian.

Since 1984 he has been a regular guest at the State independent Theological

University of Basle, Switzerland on the subject of 'The Bible and Science'.

He has held lectures on related topics at numerous universities at home and

abroad, as well as having spoken on the topic Faith and Science in a number of

different countries (e.g. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Kazakhstan,

Kirghizia, Lithuania, Namibia, Norway, Rumania, Russia, South Africa, Sweden

Switzerland).

In 1966 Werner Gitt married his wife Marion. They have two children, Carsten

and Mona.