Mark Brouard

Professor
Mark Brouard
Professor Mark Brouard
Born	1959 (age 65–66)
Nationality	British
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

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]

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]