François Wesemael (20 January 1954 in Vietnam – 28 September 2011 in Montreal, Quebec)[1] was a Canadian astrophysicist who specialised in modeling stellar atmospheres.
[3] François Wesemael was born in Vietnam, moving with his family to France, Luxemburg and then Canada during his childhood.
[2] Wesemael completed a PhD under the supervision of Hugh M. Van Horn and Malcolm P. Savedoff at the University of Rochester.
He was a member of the white dwarf asteroseismology group at Université de Montréal, along with his colleague Gilles Fontaine.
This research group received internationally acclaim for its wide ranging contributions to our understanding of white dwarfs.