Francis Leblanc

Francis LeBlanc is Associate Vice-President for Research and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the Université de Moncton since January 1st, 2017. Previously, he was Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the same university. Dr. LeBlanc holds a doctorate in physics from the Université de Montréal and is an active researcher in astrophysics. His research has been funded on an ongoing basis by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) since 1998. He has been an Associate Professor or Visiting Research Associate at four renowned academic institutions (Université Laval, Université de Paris VII, Université de Toulouse and Observatoire de Paris-Meudon). In 2010, he published a book at the prestigious Wiley publishing house entitled ‘An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics’. This book has been used as a textbook at more than 75 universities including Harvard, Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge, U. libre de Bruxelles, Tokyo, Warsaw, Montreal, Victoria and Western.