Normand Mousseau is Academic Director of the Trottier Energy Institute at Polytechnique Montreal and a Founding Director of The Transition Accelerator.

Dr. Mousseau is actively involved with energy and climate policy, having co-chaired the Quebec Commission on Energy Issues in 2013. He is a professor of physics at University of Montreal with a number of books published in complex materials, energy and natural resources. From 2009 – 2012 he was Chair of Excellence, Fondation NanoSciences and from 2003 – 2014 he served as Canada Research Chair in Computational Physics of Complex Materials.