Diederik Aerts

Diederik Aerts (born April 17, 1953) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and a professor at Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB), where he directs the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA).

Diederik Aerts was born in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, on April 17, 1953. He attended secondary school at 'Koninklijk Atheneum' in Heist-op-den-Berg, in the section Latin-Mathematics. He received his MSc in Mathematical Physics in 1975 from Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB). For his doctorate he worked at the University of Geneva with Constantin Piron on the Foundations of Quantum Theory, obtaining his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from VUB with Jean Reignier.

In 1976 he started working as a researcher for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO), where in 1985 he became a tenured researcher. Since 1995, he has been director of the VUB's Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) and in 2000 he was appointed professor at the VUB. From 1990, he has been a board member of the 'Worldviews group', founded by the late philosopher Leo Apostel. In 1997 he became Editor-in-Chief of the international ISI and Springer journal 'Foundations of Science (FOS)'. He was the scientific and artistic coordinator of the 'Einstein meets Magritte' conference, where some of the world's leading scientists and artists gathered to reflect about science, nature, human action and society.

Diederik Aerts investigated for his PhD work with Constantin Piron the description of compound quantum entities within the realistic and axiomatic approach to quantum physics elaborated in Geneva by the group of quantum physicists headed by Josef-Maria Jauch.

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