Claude Pruneau

2019 Wayne State University Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award 2009 Wayne State University Department of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award 2006 Wayne State University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Pruneau is the author of the textbook Data Analysis Techniques for Physical Scientists (2017).

Pruneau is a French Canadian native born in Quebec City. He completed his studies at Universite Laval where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1987. He worked as Research Fellow successively for the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and McGill University (Montreal). He joined the Wayne State University Faculty in 1992 where he is now Professor. He conducts an active research program on the search and study of the Quark Gluon Plasma at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Pruneau is also visiting professor at the Mumbai Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Pruneau is a member of the American Physical Society, the Canadian Association of Physicists, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. He enjoys teaching at both the Graduate and Undergraduate levels, as well as offering lectures for the larger public. Pruneau was acting director of the Wayne State Planetarium. In this capacity, he delivered numerous public lectures on various scientific topics, including the extinction of dinosaurs, the production and use of energy, and the study of the quark gluon plasma, including a TedX talk.

Claude Pruneau (born November 9, 1960) is a Canadian-American experimental high-energy nuclear physicist. He is a Professor of Physics at Wayne State University and the author of several books. He is best known for his work on particle correlation measurements in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.