Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
Mark Brouard | |
Nationality: | British |
Professor of Chemistry | |
Discipline: | Chemistry |
Sub Discipline: | Physical chemistry Reaction dynamics Photodissociation |
Alma Mater: | Wadham College, Oxford Linacre College, Oxford |
Doctoral Advisor: | M. J. Pilling |
Workplaces: | University of Nottingham Jesus College, Oxford |
Mark Brouard is Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Jesus College,[1] and is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he was head of the Department of Chemistry from 2015–2023.[2] He is a specialist in reaction dynamics.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
Brouard became a Fellow of Jesus College in 1993.[6] He has served as the college's Vice-Principal since 2024.[7]
Brouard is a past recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Dynamics Award.