Education

1979-82: The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

B.Sc. with first class honours in physics, double major in mathematics.
Received prizes as the top physics student in 1979 and 1980.

1983-88: University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.

Ph.D. in computational physics, advisor Prof. A.J.G. Hey.
Doctoral thesis: Deconfinement Transitions in Lattice Gauge Theories.
Commonwealth Scholarship award.