Mark Brouard
Mark Brouard 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 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.