Prof. Dr. Wolf A. Kafka
Prof. Dr. Wolf A. Kafka
Prof. Dr. Wolf A. Kafka (born November 20th, 1939 in Germany) worked as a physicist (diploma in theoretical atomic and molecular physics and magnetism (marks 1.0) and neuro-physiologist (doctorate summa cum laude, habilitation and venia legendi) and some extensive research activities in the USA (Dept of the United States Ministery of Agriculture, USDA Philadelphia) for more than 30 years at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology.
His research, recently in a management position, was focused both on the molecular principles of odor detection and differentiation and on their practical and industrial applications. Numerous scientific developments, patents, publications (in internationally recognized journals), documentaries and films (e.g. radioactivity, animal communication, pheromones, two awarded by the German Bundesfilmpreis) are based on his studies. His university teaching and training activities, including the academic examinations, concerned the areas of physics, medicine, physiology and pharmacy.
He is an elected member of several well-known scientific societies, including the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and full member of the research and teaching staff of Peking University, Beijing in China (Bioactive Compounds). As a primary researcher, inventor and developer of an electromagnetic field therapy concept he was 1998 elected the president of the International Association for the Research on the Physiological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields under Normal and Extreme (Space) Conditions (EMPHYSPACE). After his retirement and the research institute’s closure, he invented and developed various electromagnetic therapy methods, thereby initiating worldwide applications for the therapeutic support of biological regulation processes.
He also focused his research on improved practical application of animal odor source detection methods and developed the SOKKS-MPTS conditioning method.
The latter turned out to worldwide welcomed easy to handle, save, long-lasting-reproducible training aids to detect various qualities of odor sources like explosives, narcotics, corpses, missing persons, fire accelerators, paper money, insect pests, species protected animals and parts of them, and nearly all substances releasing odorous compounds. In 1998 he was appointed Certification Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Center for Behavioral Sciences of Canines (CSC) of the Universita´ degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
For his inventions and developing training tools (SOKKS) to improve tracking dog training, in 2013 he was awarded the Rochus Medal of the Austrian Armed Forces. Kafka likes bicycling, car-driving, the Alps, and the Bavarian Beer gardens.
He is an elected member of several well-known scientific societies, including the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and full member of the research and teaching staff of Peking University, Beijing in China (Bioactive Compounds). As a primary researcher, inventor and developer of an electromagnetic field therapy concept he was 1998 elected the president of the International Association for the Research on the Physiological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields under Normal and Extreme (Space) Conditions (EMPHYSPACE). After his retirement and the research institute’s closure, he invented and developed various electromagnetic therapy methods, thereby initiating worldwide applications for the therapeutic support of biological regulation processes.
He also focused his research on improved practical application of animal odor source detection methods and developed the SOKKS-MPTS conditioning method. The latter turned out to worldwide welcomed easy to handle, save, long-lasting-reproducible training aids to detect various qualities of odor sources like explosives, narcotics, corpses, missing persons, fire accelerators, paper money, insect pests, species protected animals and parts of them, and nearly all substances releasing odorous compounds. In 1998 he was appointed Certification Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Center for Behavioral Sciences of Canines (CSC) of the Universita´ degli Studi di Padova, Italy. For his inventions and developing training tools (SOKKS) to improve tracking dog training, in 2013 he was awarded the Rochus Medal of the Austrian Armed Forces. Kafka likes bicycling, car-driving, the Alps, and the Bavarian Beer gardens.