Pierre Gaspard (born 6 December 1959) is a
Belgian physicist and professor at the ''Interdisciplinary Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems'' and the ''Service de Physique Non-Linéaire and Mécanique Statistique'' of the
Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His research interests are on nonlinear
physics,
statistical physics, and
chemical physics.
Gaspard studied physics at the
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) from 1978 to 1982, and completed his doctorate in physics in 1987, directed by . After postdoctoral studies at the
University of Chicago he became a researcher with the
National Fund for Scientific Research in 1989. He joined ULB as a lecturer in 1996; in 2004 he became a professor and gave up his researcher position.
[
He won the Théophile De Donder Prize of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1988 and the Adolphe Wetrems Prize in 1995.][
In 2006, he was awarded the ]Francqui Prize
The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize named after Émile Francqui. Normally annually since 1933, the Francqui Foundation awards it in recognition of the achievements of a scholar or scientist, who at the start ...
on Exact Sciences for his work on statistical mechanics.
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Pierre Gaspard
Belgian physicists
Living people
Université libre de Bruxelles faculty
1959 births
Scientists from Brussels
Université libre de Bruxelles alumni
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