Gilles H. Peslherbe

Gilles H. Peslherbe is a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics and Chemical & Materials Engineering at Concordia University.  He obtained a Diplôme d’Ingénieur Chimiste from the Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle in Lyon, France in 1991, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry and Computer Engineering with Bill Hase  from Wayne State University, USA in 1995. He then pursued a joint postdoctoral fellow with Branka Ladanyi at University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and Casey Hynes at Colorado State University, USA, before joining Concordia as an Assistant Professor  in 1998 and rising to the rank of Professor in 2008. He is the past Founding Director of the Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM) and was elected Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada in 2021.