Born in
Brno to family of the Brno normative legal school representative Zdeněk Neubauer (sr.), Neubauer graduated from
Charles University in Prague (1965 in
microbiology,
biology and
chemistry, 1971 in
philosophy). During his activity in Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica in
Naples (1967–1970) he made several discoveries in
genetics. In 1982 left the university because of nonconformist attitudes (both scientific and political). After that, he was mainly a philosopher (a programmer analyst by job), publishing underground. Since 1990, he has been a member of the department of philosophy and history of science at
Charles University Faculty of Science.