Hans-Thomas Elze

Hans-Thomas Elze is a theoretical physicist. - Phd at University of Frankfurt (1985), followed by positions in Berkeley, Helsinki, and 3 years spent at CERN. Professorships in Bremen, Regensburg, and Tucson (Arizona). Professor at Brazil's renowned Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1997-2004).

Affiliated with Universita di Pisa (since 2004). - Several Fellowships, notably Heisenberg Fellow Award (German science foundation, DFG) for quantum transport theory in gauge theories. Organizer of biannual DICE (foundations of physics) conferences in Italy since 2002.

Present interests include: entanglement entropy, decoherence, emergence of quantum mechanics.