The Contributors

The Contributors Antonio Ac´ın is a Telecommunication Engineer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and has a degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). He got his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2001 from the UB. After a post-doctoral stay in Geneva, in the group of Prof. Gisin (GAP-Optique), he joined the ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences of Barcelona as a post-doc in 2003. He first became Assistant Profes- sor there in 2005 and later Associate Professor (April 2008). More recently, he has become an ICREA (a Cata- lan Research Institution) Research Professor, September 2008, and has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). E-mail: [email protected] Diederik Aerts is professor at the ‘Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB)’ and director of the ‘Leo Apostel Centre (CLEA)’, an interdisciplinary and interuniversity (VUB, UGent, KULeuven) research centre, where researchers of dif- ferent disciplines work on interdisciplinary projects. He is also head of the research group ‘Foundations of the Exact Sciences (FUND)’ at the VUB and editor of the international journal ‘Foundations of Science (FOS)’. His work centers on the foundations of quantum mechanics and its interpretation, and recently he has investigated the applications of quantum structures to new domains such as cognitive science and psychology. E-mail: [email protected] 871 872 The Contributors Hanne Andersen holds a MSc in physics and comparative literature from the University of Copen- hagen and a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Roskilde, Denmark, and she is currently associate professor at the Department for Sci- ence Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Among her publications are On Kuhn (Wadsworth 2001) and The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Rev- olutions (co-authored with Peter Barker and Xiang Chen, Cambridge University Press 2006). E-mail: [email protected] Jean-Pierre Antoine (1940) received his MS and his PhD in Physics from Université catholique de Louvain, in 1962 and 1966, respectively. After postdoctoral positions at Princeton University (NJ), University of Pittsburgh (PA), and UniversitédeGenève (Switzer- land), he spent his academic career at the Université catholique de Louvain. He was also invited professor at many foreign universities. At the Université catholique de Louvain, he was Head of the Institute of Theoret- ical and Mathematical Physics (FYMA), Chairman of the Department of Physics, and member of various university committees. He is a member of the European Physical Society, the Amer- ican Physical Society, the International Association of Mathematical Physics, the American Mathematical Society. E-mail: [email protected] Theodore Arabatzis is Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Athens. He has written on late nineteenth and early twentieth century physics and chemistry. He has also published on philosophical and historiographical issues concerning conceptual change, scientific realism, and experimen- tation. He is the author of Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities (2006). E-mail: [email protected] The Contributors 873 Markus Arndt is presently full professor of Quantum Nanophysics at the University of Vienna. His research is focused on quantum optics and interferometry with clusters and large molecules, aiming at understanding the quantum/classical transition and applications of molecule interferometry for metrology and lithography. His started his research as a Diploma student with H. Walther in LMU Munich, continued as a PhD student with T. W. Hänsch at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, was a Post- doc with J. Dalibard at the Ecole Normale Superieure´ in Paris and with A. Zeilinger at the University of Innsbruck. His research on molecule interferometry was awarded the START prize (BM:BWK, FWF), Kohlrausch prize (OPG)¨ and Erich Schmid prize (OAW).¨ E-mail: [email protected] Leslie Ballentine is a Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, B.C., Canada. Born in 1940 at Wainwright, Alberta, he completed a B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Alberta before going to Cambridge, England for his Ph.D. His earlier research activities were in condensed matter physics and statis- tical mechanics, but those have gradually given way to his current interests, which include the foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum chaos, and the emergence of classical behavior from quantum mechanics. E-mail: Leslie [email protected] Jeffrey A. Barrett is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine. He is author of The Quantum Mechanics on Minds and Worlds Oxford University Press (2001), the online Stanford Encyclo- pedia of Philosophy article on Everett’s relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics, and many journal articles on the quantum measurement problem more generally. E-mail: [email protected] 874 The Contributors Charlotte Bigg is an historian of physics, chemistry and astrophysics in the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies. After completing her PhD on the history of spectroscopy at the University of Cambridge in 2002, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. She is currently a research scientist at the Centre Alexandre Koyré/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Robert C. Bishop is Associate Professor of Physics and Philosophy and the John and Madeleine McIntyre Professor of History and Philosophy of Sci- ence at Wheaton College. He held research postdocs in Germany and taught at The London School of Eco- nomics and Political Science, University of Oxford and Rice University before coming to Wheaton. His research interests are in the foundations of physics and interre- lations between physics, consciousness and free will. E-mail: [email protected] Arno Bohm is Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research covers group theoretical methods in particle physics, the idea of the spectrum generating group, relativistic spectrum generating group and relativistic collective models. He is also engaged in research on the quantum geometric phase and foundations and applications in molecule physics (1989–1993). He worked on the rigged Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics (1964–1966), with applications to decay and Golden Rule, time evolution semigroup (1975–1981), and irreversible quantum theory (1993– 2001). E-mail: [email protected] Arianna Borrelli has worked in research both as a theoretical physicist and as a historian of pre-modern natural philosophy and modern science. She is at present collaborating in a joint project on the “His- tory and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. E-mail: [email protected] The Contributors 875 Marianne Breinig was certified as a teacher of Mathematics and Physics by the J. W. Goethe Univer- sität, Frankfurt, Germany in 1972. In 1975 she received an MA and in 1979 a PhD in Physics from the Univer- sity of Oregon. After 2 years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate she joined the faculty at the University of Ten- nessee in 1981. Since 1988 she has also held a position as Adjunct R and D Participant in the Physics Divi- sion of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She focuses her efforts in the areas of atomic collision physics and physics teaching and instructional technology. E-mail: [email protected] Hans J. Briegel obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich in 1994. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University, Harvard Univer- sity, and Innsbruck University. From 1998 to 2003 he was at the LMU Munich, where he received his Habil- itation. In 2003, he joined the faculty of physics at the University of Innsbruck as a Full Professor. He is also a Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck. His current research interests include the theory of quantum information and computation, molecular biophysics, and the foundations of quantum mechanics. E-mail: [email protected] Dagmar Bruss completed her doctorate in theoretical particle physics in 1994 at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She joined the University of Oxford, England, as a European Research Fellow from 1996 to 1997, where she started to work in the newly emerging field of quantum information theory. She spent another European Fellowship in 1998 at ISI Torino, and then joined the University of Hannover, Germany, where she completed her Habilitation in 2002. Since 2004 Dagmar Bruss has been Full Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Her main research interests are quantum information theory, in particular foundations, entanglement theory, quantum cloning and state estimation, quantum cryptography, and quantum optical implementations. E-mail: [email protected] 876 The Contributors Jeffrey Bub (PhD, London University, 1966, in mathematical physics) is distinguished university professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the Univer- sity of Maryland. He has numerous publications on the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and is the author of two books: The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Reidel, 1974) and Interpreting the Quantum World (Cambridge University Press, 1997/1999), which won the prestigious Lakatos Award in 1998. His current research is focused on foundational questions arising in the field of quantum information and computation. He was awarded the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize in 2005 for his work in this area. E-mail: [email protected] Paul Busch is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of York (since 2005).

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