John C. Baez

John C. Baez
Baez in August 2009
Born	John Carlos Baez (1961-06-12) June 12, 1961 (age 63) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education	Princeton University (AB) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Spouse	Lisa Raphals
Awards	Levi L. Conant Prize (2013)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, mathematical physics
Institutions	University of California, Riverside
Thesis	Conformally Invariant Quantum Fields (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Irving Segal
Doctoral students	Alissa Crans

John Carlos Baez (/ˈbaɪ.ɛz/;^[2] born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR)^[3] in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory. Additionally, Baez is known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index.