Past and present research interests

  • Instrumentation: Beauty and the Beast, an aperture polarimeter used at the Mont Mégantic Astronomical Observatory
  • Young stars (T Tauris, Herbig Ae/Be), especially those in close binary systems - polarimetric studies of those objects
  • Numerical simulations of Thomson or Mie scattering circumbinary envelopes
  • Polarimetry of comets (Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake)
  • Polarimetry of stars: AGB, Ap, Wolf-Rayet
  • Polarimetry of the interstellar medium
  • Spectroscopy of young stars
  • Instrumentation: the ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter
  • Spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of Be stars and hot stars with dust
  • Herbig Ae/Be stars survey
  • Spectropolarimetry: Astrobiology and the Solar System


Publications


Duties at CFHT, in chronological order

  • Support astronomer for GECKO, the high resolution (R~100,000) Coudé spectrograph (not offered anymore).
  • Member of the local organizing committee for the 1999 ADASS IX conference, first editor for the proceedings.
  • Astronomer for CAFE, the fiber feed to the Coudé focus, successfully commissionned in July 2000.
  • Member of the local organizing committee for the Astrophysical Ages and Timescales conference, which was held in Hilo, in February 2001, and one of the editors for the proceedings.
  • Participation in the QSO observations, as one of the Queue coordinators (for CFH12k, MegaCam, WIRCam, and ESPaDOnS), since 2001.
  • CFHT project scientist for the spectropolarimeter ESPaDOnS, commissionned at the end of 2004.
  • Member of the Scientific Organisation Committee for the conference Astronomical Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions, which was held in March 2004.
  • Support astronomer for the spectropolarimeter ESPaDOnS (Classical and QSO modes).
  • Member of the local and scientific organizing committees for the conference Astronomical Polarimetry 2008 - Science from Small to Large Telescopes, which was held July 6-11 2008 in La Malbaie (QC), and one of the editors for the proceedings.
  • QSO manager since the summer of 2008.
  • Project Scientist for OPERA (2010-2015), the Open source Pipeline for Espadons data Reduction and Analysis.
  • Group manager for the Astronomy Group since 2013.
  • Member of the local organizing committee for ngCFHT workshop (Mar 2013) and CFHT Users' Meeting (2013 & 2016).
  • Member of the local organizing committee for the ADASS XXIII conference, which was held on the Big Island in Sep/Oct 2013, first editor of the proceedings.
  • CFHT representative and chair (since 2013) of the Maunakea Astronomy Outreach Committee.
  • CFHT Scientist for GRACES since 2017. GRACES is the Gemini Remote Access to CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph
  • Chair of LOC for the May 2019 CFHT Users' meeting


Professional Development

  • Communication Skills of Highly Effective People, Ku'ikahi Mediation Center, 2018
  • Assertive Communication Skills for Managers, Fred Pryor Webinar, 2017
  • Managing the Performance of Others, Pacific Leadership Consultants, 2016
  • What future for education? by University of London & UCL Institute of Education on Coursera, 05/2016
  • How to Create Online Discussions from the University of Hawaii Leeward Community College. Letter of Accomplishment obtained 11/2015
  • An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching from the Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin Madison, Michigan State University & Boston University on Coursera. Statement of Accomplishment obtained 12/2015
  • Foundation of Teaching for Learning 1: Introduction from the Commonwealth Education Trust on Coursera, 2015
  • Learning to Teach Online from UNSW Australia on Coursera. Verified Certificate obtained 08/2015
  • How To Teach Us, from High Tech High Graduate School of Education, Coursera, 2015
  • Surviving Your Rookie Year of Teaching: 3 Key Ideas & High Leverage Techniques, from Match Teacher Residency, Coursera, 2015
  • Creative Leadership for Managers, Supervisors and Team Leaders, Fred Pryor Seminars, 2014
  • How to Become a More Effective Supervisor, Fred Pryor Seminars, 2014
  • The Communications Workshop, offered by Frontier Associates Inc., 2013
  • Supervisory Development Series, training provided by Hawaii Employers Council, Sep. 2010
  • The Effective Leader Program, 5-day seminar presented by Frontier Associates Inc., 2003
  • Astronomical Optics for Astronomers, SPIE short course, 2002