Nico F. Declercq

Nico Felicien Declercq is a Belgian physicist, mechanical engineer, poet, historian and philosopher. He is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Georgia Tech Europe in France. He specializes in ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of materials, propagation of ultrasonic waves in highly complex materials, in acoustics, in theoretical and experimental linear and nonlinear ultrasonics, acousto-optics, medical physics and acoustic microscopy. He has investigated the acoustics of Chichen Itza and Epidaurus. He is also the author of a series of works on cosmology, general relativity,, the foundations of physics and, particularly, quantum mechanics, developing Trembling Spacetime Relativity Theory (TSRT). As a Ph.D. student, Declercq published 30 peer-reviewed articles in reputed scientific journals, including Annalen der Physik, and made 42 presentations at international congresses in his field. His work has been covered in Nature News, New Scientist, USA Today, The Economist, The Washington Post, Die Zeit, and Acoustics Today.