Department of Mathematics
FRANK VALCKENBORGH
MSc (Brussels), PhD (Brussels)
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Position: | Research Fellow | |
| Office: | E7A 405 | ||
| Phone: | 9850 8945 | ||
| Fax: | 9850 8114 | ||
| Email: | fvalcken@maths.mq.edu.au | ||
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Frank Valckenborgh spent his early life collecting masters degrees in biology, molecular biology and theoretical physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, living the free life of a student for about ten years. He decided to continue his investigations in theoretical physics for his doctoral research, and he defended his doctoral thesis in 2001, entitled "Compound Physical Systems in Quantum Axiomatics". He continues to do research on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of physical theories in general and quantum physics in particular, employing a variety of mathematical techniques. At the moment he is a Macquarie University Research Fellow, a three-year position that he may keep until the end of 2006. If he is not thinking about mathematical physics, Frank is likely to be found either in the bush, trying to identify and take the ultimate picture of snakes and other things alive, or in the sea, where he practices the art of scuba diving, desperately searching for even more observations on his growing life list.