Bruce Gaulin received B.Sc. degree in Physics (Great Distinction) from McGill University in 1981. He received Ph.D. in Physics from McMaster University in 1986. He has been joining McMaster University since 1988. In 1998 and 2017, he took up his current positions as Brockhouse Chair in the Physics of Materials and Distinguished University Professor respectively.

Gaulin was awarded Brockhouse Medal, Canadian Association of Physicists in 2011. He is also Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Fellow of Neutron Scattering Society of America. He has co-authored 231 lifetime publications in refereed journals. This body of work has resulted in 8,581 total citations, h-index: 52 (Web of Science) and 11,813 total citations, h-index: 59 (Google Scholar). He has delivered 283 invited research seminars and colloquia, mostly related to exotic magnetic ground states and neutron scattering. Of these, 108 were delivered at international conferences and workshops, and 175 were delivered at Universities and National Laboratories.

Gaulin has supervised 13 senior year undergraduate thesis students, 25 MSc students, 23 PhD students, 15 postdoctoral fellows, and 6 long term visitors (sabbatical visitors). In 2017, he was awarded the President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision, from McMaster University, in recognition of this record.