Before his appointment in Norway, Dick Bedeaux was Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. He extended the theory of irreversible thermodynamics to the description of heat, mass and charge transport along, into and through boundary layers. More recently he worked on the description of curved surfaces in the context of equilibrium thermodynamics. Bedeaux has co-authored the book Optical Properties of Surfaces with Jan Vlieger. He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University, Netherlands in 1969.