Mark Brouard

Professor 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

Mark Brouard (born February 1959) is Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Jesus College, and is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he was head of the Department of Chemistry from 2015–2023. He is a specialist in reaction dynamics. 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.

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.

Brouard became a Fellow of Jesus College in 1993. He has served as the college's Vice-Principal since 2024.

Honours

Brouard is a past recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Dynamics Award.

Selected publications

• Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010. (Joint editor with Claire Vallance)