Mark Brouard
Professor of chemistry
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Mark Brouard (born February 1959)[1] is Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Jesus College,[2] and is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he was head of the Department of Chemistry from 2015–2023.[3] He is a specialist in reaction dynamics.[4] In collaboration with professor Claire Vallance, Brouard has created the PImMS (Pixel Imaging Mass Spectrometry) sensor, claimed to be "the fastest camera in the world", which is used to detect particles.[5]
Mark Brouard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) |
| Title | Professor of Chemistry |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford Linacre College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | M. J. Pilling |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Chemistry |
| Sub-discipline | Physical chemistry Reaction dynamics Photodissociation |
| Institutions | University of Nottingham Jesus College, Oxford |
Academic career
Brouard was an undergraduate student at Wadham College, Oxford and a graduate student at Linacre College, Oxford, where his doctoral work was supervised by M. J. Pilling. After obtaining his DPhil he moved to the University of Nottingham as a postdoctoral researcher, working with John Simons. He became a lecturer at the university in 1989.[6]
Brouard became a Fellow of Jesus College in 1993.[7] He has served as the college's Vice-Principal since 2024.[8]
Honours
Brouard is a past recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Dynamics Award.[6]
Selected publications
- Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010. (Joint editor with Claire Vallance)[9]
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