Auteur: Juleon M. Schins

The author was born 1964 in Sorengo (Switzerland) from Dutch parents. He was raised in Italy, obtained his high school degree 1982 from the Scuola Europea di Varese, his masters 1987 in optics at the University of Amsterdam, his doctorate 1992 in molecular physics. He had some post-doc experience on atomic physics at the cole Nationale de Techniques Avances in Paris, and on biophysics at the University of Twente. From 2002 the author teaches nanotechnology at the Delft University of Technology, and is specialized in Optical and tera Hertz spectroscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals. The author has always been interested in the relation between physics and philosophy. He wrote books and articles claiming that quantum mechanics and causality can be understood consistently and univocally in both physics and philosophy by means of Aristotles hylomorphism.