About Me

Education

  • B. Sc. 1981; University of Toronto (undergraduate research director: John C. Polanyi)
  • Ph. D. 1985; University of California at Berkeley (graduate research director: William H. Miller)

Fellowships

  • American Physical Society (division of chemical physics) (2007)
  • Chemical Institute of Canada (1999)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2023)

Visiting Professorships

  • Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow at the Technical University of Munich (1994-1995)
  • Bielefeld Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (summer 1997)
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow at the University of Heidelberg (8.2001-2.2002)
  • Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zuerich (3.2002-9.2002)
  • Visiting Professor at the Université de Franche-Comté (5.2005-7.2005)
  • Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zuerich (1.7.2006-31.7.2006)
  • Visiting Professor at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (6.2008-7.2008)
  • Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zuerich (6.2009-7.2009)
  • Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zuerich (8.2011-12.2011)
  • Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zuerich (5.2012-11.2012)
  • Visiting Professor at the Université de Franche-Comté (6.2013-08.2013)
  • Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zuerich (5.2014)
  • Visiting Professor at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (6.2014)
  • Visiting Professor at the Universitaet Heidelberg (7.2015-8.2015)
  • Visiting Professor at the ETH-Zuerich (7.2016-8.2016)
  • Visiting Professor at the Université de Lorraine (5.2017-6.2017)
  • Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University (8.2017-12.2017)
  • Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University (8.2018-12.2018)
  • Visiting Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (7.2019-8.2019)   
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (Universitaet Bielefeld) (1.2022-3.2022)                 
  • Visiting Professor at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (4.2022)
  • Bourse Jean D'Alembert, Université Paris-Saclay     (7.2022)
  • Bourse Jean D'Alembert, Université Paris-Saclay     (1-7.2023)
  • Visiting Professor at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne       (5.2024) 
  •  Visiting Professor at the Universitaet Bielefeld                 (6-8 2024)

 

Positions

  • Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University (Aug. 2021 - present)
  • Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Computational Quantum Dynamics at Queen's University (Aug. 2007-July 2021)
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry - Université de Montréal (June 1998 - August 2007)
  • Associate Professor and University Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry - Université de Montréal (June 1993 - May 1998)
  • Chercheur agrégé and University Research Fellow Department of Chemistry - Université de Montréal (June 1992 - May 1993)
  • Chercheur adjoint (equivalent to Assistant Professor) and University Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry - Université de Montréal (Sept. 1988 - May 1992)

Awards

                                                                                             

  • Canadian Association of Theoretical Chemists Honorary Lecturer   (2024)
  • Member of the International Academy of Molecular Science (2019)
  • 2019 Queen's Prize for Excellence in Research
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2017-2019)
  • Prize for the best talk by a professor at the 3rd Workshop on Sparse Grids and Applications (9.2014)
  • John C. Polanyi Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry     (2014)
  • Gerhard Herzberg award of the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy   (2013)
  • Noranda Lecture Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (1999)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow (1994-1995)
  • NSERC of Canada University Research Fellow (1988-1997)
  • FCAR of Quebec "nouveau chercheur" (1988-1990)

Journal Leadership

  • Member of the Editorial Board of Molecular Physics (2008 - present)
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (2001 - present)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (2014 – 2017)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Mathematics (2017 – present)