Summary
Dean holds an Australian Research Council fellowship at the University of Sydney, where he works on the history and philosophy of modern physics. He specialises in theories of space, time, symmetry, and quantum gravity. He is currently engaged with projects on the early histories of quantum gravity and of string theory. He also plays the piano and drinks an awful lot of tea.
Experience
- ARC Senior Australian Research Fellow, The University of Sydney 2007 – present
Education
- University of Leeds, PhD, 2005
Publications
- The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference (with Cecile DeWitt), Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Science, 2011
- The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics, Ashgate, 2008
- Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime, North Holland: Elsevier, 2007
- The Structural Foundations of Quantum Gravity (Co-edited with Steven French and Juha Saatsi), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006
Research Areas
- History And Philosophy Of Specific Fields (2202)
- Field Theory And String Theory (020602)
Grants and Contracts
- The Development of Quantum Gravity (2009)
- Role: Chief Investigator
- Funding Source: Australian Research Council
Available for
- Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration
- Contract Research
- Speaking Engagements
- Expertise Requests
- Talking With Students
- Consulting Offers
- Career Opportunities
- Media Interviews