André Bandrauk

André Bandrauk is a broad-ranging and innovative theorist whose exceptional ability to manipulate rigorous formalisms is balanced by a keen perception of what is physically interesting and experimentally feasible. His nonperturbative theory of molecular predissociation is recognized as a major achievement which stimulated important developments in other fields, including resonance Raman scattering. He also leads a group of experimentalists engaged in the synthesis and study of organic charge-transfer crystals in search of one-dimensional conductors, Recently he successfully tackled the nonlinear interaction of molecules with strong laser fields, a topic fundamental to our understanding of laser-induced chemistry.