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Diederik Aerts Biography
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.
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).
In the 1970s and 1980s, Aerts’s focus of research was on the foundations of quantum theory, and the Geneva-Brussels realistic axiomatic and operational approach to quantum theory. In 1990, Leo Apostel founded the Worldviews group and invited Aerts to be one of its members. The aim of the Worldviews group, viz. to construct global views integrating different fragmented parts of knowledge from different scientific disciplines, arose a deep interest in interdisciplinary research, and two books were the results of the monthly gatherings of the group. Leo Apostel had founded in 1985 the center of interdisciplinary studies at VUB, but it had been dormant, which was one of the reasons why Leo Apostel created the Worldviews group.
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.
In the early 1990s, the idea grew to try to revive the center, and Apostel asked Aerts to look into it. As a result, in the aftermath of a major international and interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Einstein meets Magritte’, in 1995, the Center Leo Apostel was re-founded, with Diederik Aerts as its director. Senior researcher Francis Heylighen, and his PhD student Johan Bollen, as well as Aerts’s group of PhD students joined the center. Funding was obtained for new postdocs, Jan Broekaert and Alex Riegler, and for a new PhD student, Ernest Mathijs. At the same time, funding was secured for a FWO-research community entitled ‘Research on the Construction of Integrating World Views’, which still is one of the center’s pillars. Also Aerts’s acceptance to become Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Foundations of Science’ was part of the broadening of his research interest and focus to cover a more interdisciplinary realm. The Worldviews group continues gathering on a regular basis and its publications contain the fruits of the discussions during these meetings.
In the course of this investigation, he proved that two of the traditional axioms of quantum theory – more specifically ‘weak modularity’ and ‘the covering law’ – are not satisfied for two ‘separated’ quantum entities. This result is an axiomatic deepening and exploration of the type of situation that make quantum entities violate Bell’s inequalities. His original quantum axiomatic approach to exploring the way that quantum entities combine enabled Aerts to put forward a thoroughly new analysis of the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox, identifying explicitly the ‘missing elements of reality’. Aerts’s analysis is very different from the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen one, since it arrives at a constructive proof of the incompleteness rather than a proof by reductio ad absurdum as in Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen.
What's Diederik Aerts Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Diederik Aerts Family
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