People Biography

Mohamed Chaker received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Université de Montréal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) in 1986. He has been a professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Varennes, Quebec, since 1989. From 2003 to 2024, he held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plasmas Applied to Micro and Nanomanufacturing Technologies.

Professor Chaker has published more than 370 peer-reviewed journal articles (over 20,700 citations, H-index = 81, Google Scholar) in diverse research areas, including advanced plasma source characterization, such as high-density and laser-induced plasmas, and their applications to thin-film and nanomaterials synthesis, nanometer-scale pattern transfer, and device fabrication.

He served as Director of the Centre Énergie et Matériaux (1999–2002) and later as Director of the Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (EMT) (2002–2005) at INRS. Professor Chaker has played a key leadership role in developing major Quebec research consortia, such as Prompt-Québec and NanoQuébec. At the international level, he is frequently invited to participate in expert evaluation committees. Notably, he chaired the Scientific Committee of the Laboratory of Excellence SEAM – Pres Sorbonne Paris Cité (Science and Engineering for Advanced Materials and Devices) from 2011 to 2023. Since 2005, he has also served as Director of the Laboratory of Micro and Nanofabrication (LMN) at INRS.