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.

After the Velvet Revolution, he returned to Charles University, joining the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the Faculty of Science. Key Intellectual Contributions

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.

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

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.