Thomas Ditzinger

Thomas Ditzinger is a science author and an applied-science editor with the SpringerNature publishing house in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart, where he also did his doctorate and has modelled various perceptual phenomena such as the recognition of ambiguous patterns and the perception of spatial depth. During research sojourns at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida, at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Stuttgart and at the Hochschule der Medien (University of Media) in Stuttgart he produced over 30 publications on human perception. He has written ten popular science books, including Fantastic Images 1 and 2, both of which topped the bestseller list in Germany. Thomas Ditzinger lives in Reichartshausen on the edge of the Odenwald Forest and has four children.