Physicist and engineer, educated in three different countries, and holder of several advanced degrees including a "Grande Ecole" degree, H. Chris Ransford was a tutor and research fellow at the University of Melbourne and at Monash University, and a guest academic at the KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany on a DAAD scholarship. He is the author of The Far Horizons of Time: Time and Mind in the Universe and God and the Mathematics of Infinity.