George F. R. Ellis

Dr. George Ellis, FRS, is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he worked on general relativity theory and cosmology. He has been based at the University of Cape Town since 1974, but has been visiting Professor at Texas, Chicago, Hamburg, Boston, Edmonton, London, and Oxford, and for a while, was Professor of Cosmic Physics at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. In recent years he has been working on the philosophy of cosmology and the emergence of complexity, the nature of causation, and aspects of neuroscience. His books include The Large Scale Structure of Space Time written with Stephen Hawking, Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will (Ed, with N Murphy and T O’Connor), How Can Physics Underlie the Mind, and Beyond Evolutionary Psychology (written with Mark Solms).