Neubauer developed a concept known as "eidetic biology" (from the Greek eidos , meaning form). This theory views biological forms not as mere mechanical outcomes, but as "archetypes" or "fields of possibilities". He argued that biology should celebrate the morphological transformations and individual singularity of life forms.

He graduated from Charles University in Prague with degrees in microbiology, biology, and chemistry (1965) and later in philosophy (1971).

Neubauer was a close friend of the playwright and president Václav Havel . Havel famously requested Neubauer to write a discourse as a companion to his Letters to Olga . Major Works

Neubauer was a prolific author of essays and books, including: Nový Areopág (1992) O přírodě a přirozenosti věcí (1998) Biomoc (2002) Do světa na zkušenou (2010) Tvary a podoby (Chapters on Eidetic Biology)

Due to his nonconformist scientific and political views, he was forced to leave the university in 1982. During the "Normalization" period in Czechoslovakia, he worked as a programmer analyst while continuing his philosophical work in the underground "inedit" communities.

He often critiqued purely mechanistic or information-based approaches to biology, seeking instead to understand the specificity of biological knowledge through analogies and alternative frameworks.

His writing frequently explored the intersections of science, myth, and religion. He wrote on topics ranging from the Gaia hypothesis and the anthropic principle to Christian mysteries and hermetic symbolism.

Between 1967 and 1970, he worked at the Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica in Naples, where he made notable contributions to the field of genetics.