Jean-Luc Brédas

Jean-Luc Brédas is a Belgian chemist and currently Distinguished Professor of Material Science and Engineering in the Physical Science and Engineering Division at KAUST. He was at the Georgia Tech in the United States, and at the Université de Mons-Hainaut (Belgium). He studied chemistry (B.S. 1976) and obtained a PhD in 1979 at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (University of Namur), Belgium under the direction of Professor Jean-Marie André. His research deals with the structural, electronic, and optical properties of novel organic and nanomaterials with promising characteristics in the field of electronics, photonics, and information technology.

Brédas is among the top 100 most cited chemists in the world, and is included in the list of the Highly Cited Researchers for Chemistry . He is the Director of International Programs at the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2011).^[1] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America.

Awards

In 1997, Brédas was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences. He received the Quinquennial Prize of the Belgian National Science Foundation in 2000 (in French: FNRS, in Dutch: NFWO) . In 2016 he was awarded the ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials.^[2]

References

External links

• Jean-Luc Brédas
• INTERVIEW with Dr. Jean-Luc Brédas
• Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech