Bob Lemieux

Dean of Science

Bob Lemieux obtained his BA with high honors from Colgate University in 1984 and his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Illinois, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University in 1992, rising to the rank of professor in 2001. Dr. Lemieux served as department head from 2007 to 2011 and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science from 2011 to 2014. In 2015, he joined the University of Waterloo as Dean of Science and Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Lemieux’s research program focuses on cross-disciplinary approaches to the development of new organic liquid crystal materials for ferroelectric LCD applications.  His contributions to the field of liquid crystals research were recognized by the International Liquid Crystal Society with the 2012 Samsung Mid-Career Award.  He also received an Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award in 2000, and one of the inaugural Queen’s Chancellor’s Research Awards in 1999.  In recognition of his teaching, he received the W.J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award from the Queen’s Arts and Science Undergraduate Society in 2005.