Jean-Pierre Hansen

Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS (born 10 May 1942) is a Luxembourgish chemist and an emeritus professor of the University of Cambridge.

Education Hansen gained a PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1969, the same year working as a staff scientist for the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Career and research In 1970, Hansen moved to the United States to do postdoctoral work at Cornell University before moving back to France in 1973 to work as an associate professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University. He became a full professor in 1977, and in 1980 moved to Grenoble to work as a visiting scientist at Institut Laue-Langevin.

In 1986 he became research director at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and in 1987 founded the physics laboratory there.