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My name is Francois ‘Swa’ M.Vanderseypen, Ph.D.

I am the owner and main driving force of ‘The Orbifold‘. Probably you’ll discover a lot about me just by asking the internet oracle, but below you’ll find in somewhat colorful and sparkling words what I think of myself.

I am a renaissance person, scientist and analytically talented, artistically gifted, poet in my wasted hours, family man and father of Merel, musical rainbow , software architect, mathematical addict, literary scavenger, thinker, kitchen activist and cleaning entusiast, I iron my shirts with care, improvise with passion on the piano, interested in everything and everyone, seclusive in general but extravagant in my own way, emotionally colorful, passionate and sturm-und-drang in a deep sense, philosopher and wisdom lover, deeply human in every sense yet extraordinary in many ways, I like homy stuff and cozyness, highly gifted and suffering from it, I dislike narrow-minded people and authority, have two sisters and am the youngest, a little heart and full of compassion for the lost ones, I’d die for being a full-time mathematician, adore good coffee and getting lost in London, I’m different, big fan of Faithless and Nittin Sawhney, can sit for hours watching good British sitcoms like Fawlty Towers and You rang M’Lord, strong believer in Loop Quantum Gravity and doubtful about superstring, favorite food is salmon with a good Australian Shiraz, religiously tainted but complex, cursed with a slight tremor, deeply bound to the one woman of my life whom I adore like an angel in my life, frantic about diagramming and network and graphs, have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics with an emphasis in quantum gravitational stuff, I love books and chocolate, happily divorced, my biggest hero is Roger Penrose, I draw a lot with pencils and have a rather unique style, like to tease people, my daughter is special in many ways like her father, I am a disaster in public relations and commercial stuff, lost both my parents and miss them, I enjoy cleaning my home, am Belgian and love my hometown Leuven, born in 1968, C’est tellement plus beau quand c’est inutile, I spent most of my evenings scribbling maths and ideas in notebooks, usually wake up at 5-6AM, love natural beauty and forests, the momentum of my mind is always towards abstraction, favorite color is steelblue and deep red, shiver of steel and concrete, not very sportive, read mathemtical articles out of pleasure, I live on my own, Westmalle trappist is my favorite Belgian beer, I worked for five years on Netron which was downloaded more than 300.000 times, Geert Hoste my favorite comedian, restless in thoughts, superficially passive, always thinkering and seeking to understand the reason behind the things, favorite heavy is Limp Bizkit, I’m actually half German, can listen a hundred times to Energy 52, never left Europe and would love to visit India, occasionally harsh in words and emotionally tormented by being different than others, I can waste hours programming .Net stuff, if any computer game then Rise of Nations it would be, favorite movie is V for Vendetta and The Pianist second, I seem to loose all the ones I love, contrary to other men I don’t care about cars and erotic desires, sometimes I enjoy sigars and the swirl of my thoughts, plain afraid of getting older and cancer, my home is 98% cheap Ikea stuff, in veel wijsheid is veel verdriet, I spent many years in a monastic place, I hate big audiences and crowds, Microsoft awarded me in 2005 the VIP title for Very Influential Person through my blogging, I don’t care much about money and status, my eyes are getting worse every year, I sometimes hug a tree, highly influenced by Beethoven and Wim Mertens can make me fly, never took drugs, I’m not too bad as a cook, I know the Bible pretty well, I’m not a genius but Haydn was, Geri is the one, I spent the last two years rediscovering quantum field theory from scratch, I lived two years in CERN (Geneva) and spent a year in Goettingen doing research, ultimate job dream would be Microsoft Research, Herman Hesse changed my life, the sign of a thinker is to coexist with unsolved problems, I’ll be a happy grand-father one day, truly associative at times and remarkably sensitive to other’s feelings, enjoy drinking coffee in an airplane, mostly human but blindly transcedental sometimes, I try to help others and fail most of the time, I hated being a Microsoft VIP, drawing is a counter-balance for my analytical efforts, my daughter was born January 19th 1997, I wear ten years old clothes, to be is more important than to become, I could spend a lifetime with knot theory.

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