Dr Selby leads the Compositional Foundations of Physics research team at the International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies hosted by the University of Gdańsk, Poland. He holds degrees in Physics from the University of Gdańsk (habilitation, 2025), Imperial College London (PhD, 2017; MRes, 2014; MSci, 2012), and the University of Waterloo (MSc, 2013).
His research is focused on the foundations of physics, seeking to answer questions such as: “how do we know that nature is non-classical?”, “is there any deeper theory of nature than quantum theory?” and “what is the best way to understand quantum theory?”. He doesn’t know the answers to any of these yet, but is convinced that diagrammatic methods and process based thinking will be a part of it .