Free Falken

Dr. Jeffrey Quincy "Free" Falken Ph.D. (born 1994 in Beachwood, Ohio, USA, ZZ04ZSX) is a theoretical physicist, psychologist, and musician, who currently serves as a professor of physics at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

A brilliant, if unorthodox theoretician, Falken earned undergraduate degrees in physics and psychology while in his teens from MIT and Harvard. He then returned to his home state of Ohio, where he earned his master's and doctorate from Ohio State. He received the Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics in 2014, and his theoretical work has been referred to as "beautiful" by Dr. Miguel Alcubierre. He also serves as front man for the experimental band Lamp of the Shameless Hippo. Free is not so much an iconoclast as someone who does not believe icons exist. He is known to use a number of drugs recreationally, though not while teaching. He also believes that there is a great deal about the universe that science has never dreamed of, and that part of being a good scientist is understanding how little you know.

Free is very good friends with Kyle Roberts, having grown up with Kyle until Free went to school in Massachusetts. The two reconnected when Free was finishing his doctorate and Kyle attended Ohio State for Computer Science. After Kyle discovered a portal to a different universe, Free helped Kyle to verify that he was in fact sane, and that the portal existed.

Free has dated and is not opposed to dating, but is also not particularly worried about dating, and while he likes it when it happens, when not in a relationship, as he isn't now, he's also perfectly content.