Dan DaranciangOriginally from: Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Did you attend college and/or job training? Where?
Undergraduate and Ph.D. at the Free University in Amsterdam.
What was your mascot? In a fight, who would win: the mascot from your alma mater or the Wash U Bear?
No mascot at the time I studied. Why do people need mascots anyway?
What brought you to Wash U?
Assistant professor position in my field: quantum mechanics of many particles.
What is your favorite book?
“Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century” by Jonathan Glover. Should be read by all students attending WashU (and everywhere else).
Something interesting that many people don’t know about you is…?
My wife and I are members of Greenpeace, Amnesty International and the Sierra Club; we don’t eat meat and don’t watch television programs. We love to travel to Japan and Italy.