My physics study began at the technical university of Eindhoven in the Netherlands but
was broken off in favor of a career as a professional musician. After five years of music,
I decided to take up
studying again. That revived study was finished with a bachelor's degree in
electrotechnics after which
I accepted a job as an ICT project leader and
consultant at a global chemicals company which has been my work since 1986.
Around the end of 2002, the interest in
physics drove me to pick up the original study again in my free evening hours as
an autodidact. Input for this study was provided by the physics program of
the university of Leiden, the Netherlands, as well as course material that could
be downloaded from the web. This still keeps me busy on an irregular basis as
time and energy permits.
