Frank Verstraete

Frank Verstraete is the Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge and professor of physics at Ghent University. In 2018, he was awarded the Francqui Prize – the most important science prize in Belgium – for his pioneering work.

Verstraete is currently at work, with Romance languages scholar, playwright and author Céline Broeckaert, on a book titled Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics: And Everybody Needs to Know Something About It, to be published in 2025 by Pan Macmillan (World English).

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