About Neil
I am a…
Activist, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Educator/Teacher, Global soul, Idea generator, Scientist, World traveler
Bio
Born South Africa, childhood in East Africa, high school in London; university in Cambridge: Churchill college, Natural Sciences (Theoretical Physics). PhD at Imperial, postdoc at Santa Barbara. Research fellow (Imperial), Associate Scientist (Fermilab), Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Princeton), Sloan and Packard Fellowships, James Clerk Maxwell Medal, Chair of Mathematical Physics (Cambridge), Founder, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
I'm passionate about
Nature, Science, Africa
An idea worth spreading
Wait till the 28th!
Areas of expertise
Cosmology, science education, Theoretical Physics
The TED story
When I first saw the email from TED, I thought it was spam, and deleted it!
Things you might not know
Just having fun