Badreddine Assouar

Badreddine Assouar is a physicist, currently director of research at CNRS and the University of Lorraine in France. His research focuses on metamaterials, metasurfaces, phononic crystals and surface acoustic wave devices.
He is an associate editor of Physical Review Applied.

Career

Badreddine Assouar received his master's degree in 1998, his PhD in 2001 and his Habilitation to Supervise Research in 2007 from the University of Lorraine in France.
After a postdoctoral fellowship, he entered to the French National Center of Scientific Research in 2002.
From 2010 to 2012, he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta as a visiting professor in the international research unit. In 2020, he became Director of Research at CNRS. He is the founder and the head of the “Metamaterials and Phononics” group at the Institut Jean Lamour.

Honors and awards

In 2009, he received the first research prize from the Lorraine region.
In 2013, he won the Award of Scientific Excellence from CNRS.
In 2024, he has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.