SPP 2013 Physics Congress Plenary Speaker: Francis Norman Paraan

Dr. Francis N. C. Paraan is a physicist and a faculty member of the National Institute of Physics at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He specializes in quantum theory and statistical mechanics. He obtained his BS degree in Applied Physics (2006) and MS degree in Physics (2007) from U.P. Diliman. He later spent a year at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics where he completed a diploma course in condensed matter. He obtained his Ph. D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he also worked as a research assistant for the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is currently the program coordinator of the Structure and Dynamics Group of the NIP.