Francis LeBlanc

Francis LeBlanc is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Universit� de Moncton (Canada). He was educated at the Universit� de Moncton and then went on to obtain a Masters degree and a PhD from the Universit� de Montr�al (Canada). During these graduate studies, he was awarded prestigious graduate studies scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), as well as other scholarships. In 1994, he was hired as assistant...See more

Francis LeBlanc is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Universit� de Moncton (Canada). He was educated at the Universit� de Moncton and then went on to obtain a Masters degree and a PhD from the Universit� de Montr�al (Canada). During these graduate studies, he was awarded prestigious graduate studies scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), as well as other scholarships. In 1994, he was hired as assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Universit� de Moncton, then promoted to associate professor and finally was promoted to full professor in January 2008. Professor LeBlanc has been an active researcher and has obtained research grants from the NSERC. His fields of expertise are diffusion in stars, chemically peculiar stars and stellar atmospheres. Professor LeBlanc is responsible for the university's observatory, has taught several undergraduate courses on general astronomy, astrophysics and space sciences, modern physics and introduction to nuclear physics and a graduate course on stellar astrophysics. See less