Serge Massar | |
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Born | |
Awards | Gödel Prize (2023) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Université libre de Bruxelles |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Physics |
Sub-discipline | Quantum information |
Institutions | Universitélibre de Bruxelles |
Serge Alexandre Massar (born 11 February 1970) [1] [2] is a Belgian physicist. He studies quantum information theory,nonlinear optics,optical neural networks,and reservoir computing. [2] [3]
Serge Massar was born in Zambia in 1970. [2] He obtained a degree in physics,then a PhD under the direction of Robert Brout from the Universitélibre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1991 and 1995,respectively. [2] He completed his post-doctoral research at Tel Aviv University from 1995 to 1997,and subsequently at Utrecht University from 1997 to 1998. [2] [3]
In 1998,Massar returned to ULB as a Research Associate of the FRS-FNRS. [2] In 2008 he became the Research Director of the FRS-FNRS. [2]
In 2012,Massar integrated into the ULB faculty,holding the rank of "Professeur Ordinaire." His tenure as the Physics Department Director at ULB spanned 2014 to 2015. [2] Additionally,he has been at the head of the Laboratoire d’Information Quantique at ULB since 2004. [2]
Massar's recognition in the field includes awards such as the 2003 Alcatel-Bell Prize,the 2010 La Recherche Prize,and the best paper award at the Symposium on Theory of Computing in 2012. [2]
He has been a member of the Royal Academy of Science,Letters,and Fine Arts of Belgium since 2021. [1]
In 2023,he received the Gödel Prize for research on extension complexity. [4]
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