Aschwin de Wolf, M.S.

Aschwin de Wolf, M.S. is Director and researcher for Advanced Neural Biosciences. His interests include cryonics, life extension, chemistry, philosophy, economics, and experimental arts.
 
Aschwin lives in Portland, Oregon and holds a Masters Degree in political science from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 2000 and became a member of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 2003.
 
From 2004 until 2007 he worked as Chief Financial Officer and Cryopreservation Technologies Manager for Suspended Animation, Inc. where he played an important role in numerous aspects of the company, ranging from the study and development of stabilization technologies to financial and administrative matters.
 
Aschwin serves as a consultant for a number of cryonics organizations, has published technical articles on various cryonics topics, and participates in Alcor’s technical development and research. In December 2008, he was made voting member of Alcor’s Research and Development Committee.
 
His current research interests include cerebral ischemia, pharmacological modulation of metabolism, and rejuvenation of the brain. He also contributes with Chana de Wolf to the technical cryonics blog Depressed Metabolism. At the 7th Alcor Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona he moderated a panel on the topic of human cryopreservation and medicine related to critical care.
 
Aschwin authored 5 dangerous ideas about cryonics, The red blood cell as a model for cryoprotectant toxicity, The healthy skeptic, The purple prose of suspended animation, The bell curve of individual choice, Cryonics sets example for emergency medicine, Brownian motion and nanotechnology, The secular case against immortality, Antioxidant skepticism, Life in non-aqueous solutions, Cryoenzymology and cryoprotectant toxicity, A critical journey from DVT to post-mortem blood coagulation, and Alcor’s self perpetuating board: reviewing the arguments.