29/05/2026
At just 15 years old, Laurent Simons, a Belgian prodigy often called “Belgium’s Little Einstein,” has officially earned his PhD in quantum physics at the University of Antwerp.
According to The Brussels Times, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis in November 2025, after already completing a bachelor’s degree in physics at age 12 and a master’s degree soon after. His research focused on Bose–Einstein condensates and analogies between boson states and black holes, and he also completed an internship in quantum optics at the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
Laurent has an IQ of 145, placing him among the top 0.1 percent of the population. He finished primary school at six, high school at eight, and was already being courted by tech companies in the United States and China by the time he was 12. His parents declined those offers, choosing instead to support his academic path in Europe, where he could focus on research that might benefit medicine and society.
Laurent’s ambitions go far beyond physics. Immediately after defending his PhD in Antwerp, he enrolled in a second doctoral program in medical science in Munich, focusing on artificial intelligence applications in medicine. His father explained that Laurent’s ultimate goal is to combine physics, chemistry, medicine, and AI to extend human life expectancy and even pursue biological immortality.
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