Shyam Wuppuluri
Affiliate Scholar
As an affiliate of the TranS-Mind Group, Shyam seeks to continue his participation in the AMA project and related initiatives on sustainability, knowledge production, and transformative approaches to societal change. Building on the insights gained during his fellowship (2024–2025) at RIFS, he will continue to engage with questions concerning the relationship between scientific inquiry and planetary well-being.
During his fellowship, Shyam also examined how practices such as deep listening and compassionate speech can foster more inclusive, reflective, and psychologically safe spaces within academia and beyond. The aim is not simply conflict resolution, but the creation of conditions in which people can better understand one another’s fears, aspirations, and perspectives while co-creating practices that promote peace and well-being. This affiliation would further enable Shyam to explore synergies with other research institutes and organisations working on similar themes related to dialogue, participation, institutional cultures and social transformation, while providing an institutional framework through which he can contribute to, initiate, and support related activities at RIFS whenever opportunities arise.
- Epistemological foundations of Sustainability
- Interplay between inner and outer dimensions of sustainability
- Interdisciplinary approaches to sciences and humanities
- Engaged Spirituality
- Deep ecology
Publications at the RIFS
Selected Publications prior to joining the RIFS
- Space, Time and Limits of Human Understanding. Foreword by John Stachel, Afterword by Noam Chomsky, Springer - The frontiers Collection, 2017
- The Map and the Territory: Exploring the foundations of Science, Thought and reality, Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, Afterword by Dagfinn Follesdal, Springer - The frontiers Collection, 2018
- Wittgensteinian (Adj.): Looking at sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein's philosophy Foreword by A. C. Grayling, Springer - The Frontiers Collection, 2019.
- (With Dali Wu) On Art and Science: Tango of an eternally inseparable duo, Afterword by Sir Martin Rees, Springer - the Frontiers Collection, 2019.
- Unravelling Complexity: Life and work of Gregory Chaitin, World Scientific, 2020
- From Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Exploring the role of Content and Context, foreword by Nicholas Rescher, Springer - The Frontiers Collection, 2022.
- (With A. C. Grayling) Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities: Words and Worlds, Springer - Synthese Library Publications, 2022.
- Awarded the 2020 Albert-Einstein Fellowship (Natural Science) by Einstein Forum, Potsdam in association with Die Daimler und Benz Stiftung - entailing six-month sojourn inside Einstein's own summerhouse in Caputh, near Berlin.
- Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.
- Received Honor of Merit (Honra Ao Merito - 10 September 2018) from the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy (Academia Brasileira de Filosofia) for disseminating and addressing the issues underlying the foundations of science.
- Felicitated by Department of Atomic Energy and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on the Homi Bhabha Founder's Day, 2018 for the scientific outreach.