Robert B. Scott is a Canadian physicist, currently a maitre de conférences at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, where he teaches various math and physics courses and has taught special relativity and general relativity since 2012. He grew up in Picton, Ontario, studied at Queen's University at Kingston and McGill University in Montreal. He specialized in ocean turbulence, did postdoctoral research in mathematics at University College London and Keele University, and then Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at Princeton University. After six years as a research scientist at The University of Texas at Austin, he held a visiting researcher position at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton before coming to France for his current position. Since January, 2016 his research affiliation is the Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Bretagne Atlantique.