| Badreddine Assouar | |
| Birth Date: | 1974 5, df=y |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Physicist |
| Alma Mater: | University of Lorraine |
| Thesis Year: | 2001 |
| Thesis Title: | Etude de dispositifs à ondes acoustiques de surface (SAW) à structure multicouche nitrure d'aluminium diamant : croissance de matériaux en couches minces et technologie de réalisation |
| Workplaces: | University of Lorraine |
Badreddine Assouar (born May 5, 1974) is a physicist, currently director of research at CNRS and the University of Lorraine in France. His research focuses on metamaterials, metasurfaces, phononic crystals and SAW devices.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] He is an associate editor of Physical Review Applied.[7]
Badreddine Assouar received his master's degree in 1998, his PhD in 2001 and his Habilitation to Supervise Research in 2007 from the University of Lorraine in France.[8] After a postdoctoral fellowship, he entered to the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2002.[9] From 2010 to 2012, he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta as a visiting professor in the international research unit (CNRS – Georgia Tech). In 2020, he became Director of Research at CNRS. He is the founder and the head of the “Metamaterials and Phononics” group at the Institut Jean Lamour (CNRS-University of Lorraine).[10]
In 2009, he received the first research prize from the Lorraine region.In 2013, he won the Award of Scientific Excellence from CNRS.In 2024, he has been elected a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc).