André D. BandraukProfessor

André D. Bandrauk, Ph.D., O.C., FRSC, FAAAS, FAPS, FCIC, FSIAM, born in Berlin, B.Sc. (Hon. Chem.)
from l'Université de Montréal, M.Sc. in theoretical chemistry from M.I.T. and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from
McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada), NATO Fellow at Oxford University's Mathematical Institute (1968-70),
assistant at the Technische Hochschule Munchen (1970) before being appointed as an assistant professor of
theoretical chemistry at l'Université de Sherbrooke. He has been an invited researcher and lecturer at prestigious
institutions: International Collaborator, Los Alamos Natl. Lab., USA (1984); Senior Visiting Scientist, NRCOttawa
(1985); Foreign Lecturer, Institute of Chem. Phys., Moscow, USSR (1985); C.A. McDowell Lecturer,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1990); Foreign Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki,
Japan (1992); Japan Society for Promotion of Science Lecturer, (Tohoku Univ.-1997); Visiting Professor,
Université de Paris Sud (Orsay), (1998); Invited speaker, Harvard University (2008, 2005, 2002, 1995, 1993),
M.I.T. (2000). In 1982, awarded a Killam Research Fellowship by the Canada Council, was elected as a Fellow
to the Royal Society of Canada in 1992. In 1989 received the Herzberg prize from the Canadian Spectroscopy
Society for his theoretical work on molecules in intense laser fields, awarded the prestigious John Polanyi (Nobel
Prize 1986) Award by the Chemical Society of Canada in 2001, has edited the first books on: "Molecules in
Laser Fields" (Marcel Dekker, N.Y., 1994) and "Laser Control + Manipulation of Molecules", (ACS book-
2003), became director of the Center for parallel computing and IBM Center of Excellence at l'Université de
Sherbrooke and is member of the new National Center of Excellence in Photonics. He is currently a CANADA
RESEARCH CHAIR in Computational Chemistry & Molecular Photonics and a new Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS (2003). He became Chair of the Department of Chemistry
in 2005 and in 2007 received a prize from the Humboldt Foundation (Berlin, Germany). He was awarded the
NSERC – J. C. Polanyi Prize for Attosecond Science (with P. B. Corkum, NRC) in 2008. (NSERC’S highest
scientific prize) – has also been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (FAPS) and was honored at the
University of Berlin by a doctorate ‘’honoris causa’’ for pioneering research in Attosecond Science. In 2009 he is
elected Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA) for outstanding contributions to
computational mathematics. The 8th International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science (ISUILS8) was
held in his honour in 2009 for his seminal contributions to this new science. In 2010 he receives from the Quebec
government – Prix du Québec – in recognition of his major contribution to the creation of the new “Attosecond
Science” and in 2011 he is invited by the Chinese Academy of Science to coorganize the first “Asian Attosecond
Science” workshop in Beijing. The Governor General of Canada appoints him in 2012 as an Officer of the Order
of Canada for pioneering work in Attosecond Chemistry. The MUST (Molecular Ultrafast Science Technology)
program of ETH-Zurich has invited him to deliver the FAST (Femto-AttoSecond Science-Technology) Fellow
lectures in 2014.
Le professeur de chimie théorique de l'Université de Sherbrooke et membre du CRM, André D. Bandrauk, a été élu Fellow de l'American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) le 31 octobre 2003.

Les insignes de cet honneur lui seront remis par l'AAAS en février 2004, à Seattle, pour reconnaître ses contributions exceptionnelles dans les domaines de la chimie théorique et computationnelle, plus particulièrement pour ses travaux sur la modélisation théorique et ses découvertes de nouvelles applications des lasers à la chimie.

Directeur de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en chimie computationnelle et photonique, André D. Bandrauk est reconnu mondialement pour ses travaux en calcul numérique nécessitant l'utilisation de superordinateurs parallèles à grande mémoire et haut débit. Fondateur du Centre d'application de calcul parallèle de l'Université de Sherbrooke (CACPUS), il dirige actuellement le laboratoire de chimie théorique à la Faculté des sciences, à l'Université de Sherbrooke. Il est membre de la Société royale du Canada.

Fondée en 1848, l'AAAS est la plus importante fédération scientifique au Monde. Elle publie le réputé magazine scientifique Science qui annonce les nominations des Fellows par discipline.