Bio Note: Diederik Aerts is professor at the ‘Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB)’ and director of the ‘Leo Apostel Centre (CLEA)’, and interdisciplinary and interuniversity (VUB an the universities of Gent and Leuven) research centre, where researchers of different disciplines work on interdisciplinar y projects. He is also head of the research group ‘Foundations of the Exact Sciences (FUND)’ at the VUB. He is secretary of the ‘International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA)’ and editor of the international journal ‘Foundations of Science (FOS)’. He is a board member of the ‘Worldviews group’, founded by the philosopher Leo Apostel, which investigates the possibility of constructing integrated worldviews, taking into account the recent scientific findings. He was the scientific and ar tistic coordinator of the ‘Einstein meets Magritte’ conference, where the world’s leading scientists and artists gathered to reflect about science, nature, human action and society.The material of the conference has been published in an eight-volume series by by Kluwer Academic and VUB Press.

Affiliation: Leo Apostel Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Homepage: http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/aerts/