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