In January 2026 I decides to overhaul this blog and dedicate it primarily to my scientific and educational curiosity. I post about the topics that interest me, or simply about ideas I enjoy exploring and puzzling on, in the research essays here.

This page just contains some basics about me.

Academic Work

I work as a Professor of Economics (Teaching) in the Department of Economics at University College London. I have been there since July 2010. I am teaching a compulsory ECON0010 Mathematics for Economics course in the BSc programme, as well as an optional course ECON0055 Economics of Science. Other courses I taught in the recent past include ECON0052 Environmental Economics and ECON0114 Computational Methods for Economics.

Before entering the Economics discipline in 2010, I was actually an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. I was part of the founding team that set up Utrecht’s University College Utrecht (UCU) as the first, residential, Liberal Arts & Sciences college in the Netherlands. At the Department of Physics & Astronomy, I taught The compulsory first-year Introduction to Relativity course, as well as courses in Lie Algebras with Applications, and Geometric & Clifford Algebras in Physics. At UCU I taught courses in Classical Physics, Classical Electrodynamics, and Econophysics.

I had come to Utrecht in 1996, after completing my PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg with a dissertation on the kinetic field theory of the non-equilibrium phase transition in a system of interacting, relativistic, scalar, bosons, as a student in the Strong Interactions physics group of Prof. Joerg Huefner. My undergraduate and MSc education, in Theoretical Physics, happened at Utrecht University between 1987 and 1992, but I already completed my MSc dissertation in Heidelberg under the supervision of Prof. Michael Schmidt on the baryon asymmetry during the electro-weak phase-transition in the very early universe. In Heidelberg I was a tutorial tutor for all Undergraduate and MSc theory core-courses (during my time there) including quantum physics and a quantum field theory seminar.

Academic visits

I made few extended academic visits during my professional career so far. I spent two terms as a visiting fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge (UK), in 2002-2003, around 6 months as an academic visitor at the Quantum Optics & Laser Science group at Imperial College, London, in 2009, and taught an Econophysics course as International Visiting Fellow at Grinnell College, United States, in 2012.

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