NRC - Key Persons
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- Associate Research Officer / Construction
Assistant Research Officer in Façade Systems and Products group focusing on the generation of climatic data needed for the testing and evaluation of building envelopes under historical, and projected future climates.
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- Assistant Research Officer / Construction
Supporting the goals of NRC and the Construction Research Centre through research of international calibre.
Expertise
Materials, Composites, Concrete, Eco-responsible Materials, Engineered materials, Sciences, Engineering, Material processing
From: National Research Council Canada
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- Assistant
- Research Officer
Research Officer in the "Polymers and Bioproducts" team in charge of developing and leading various internal and collaborative scientific projects in the field of polymers, bioproducts, recycling, biorefinery, eco-responsible materials.
Expertise
Energy, Biorefinery, Renewables - Solar Energy, Materials, Biopolymers, Polymers, Sciences, Chemistry, Materials, Technology, Chemical analysis
From: National Research Council Canada
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- Research Council Officer, Indigenous Languages Technologies
I am a Research Council Officer with the NRC DT Indigenous Language Technology project. I develop and research speech & language revitalization software and user interfaces. I am interested in technology research and development that supports communities in their goals for language revitalization and reclamation.
Expertise
Information Technology, Computer science
From: National Research Council Canada
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- Vice - President
- FedDev Ontario As the Vice - President, Policy, Partnerships and Performance Management
- VP Business and Professional Services
Alain Beaudoin was appointed Vice-President of Business and Professional Services in October 2022, taking on the responsibility for Knowledge, Information and Technology Services, National Programs and Business Services, International Innovation Office and Design and Fabrication Services.
Prior to joining the NRC, Alain was at the Privy Council Office as Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Results and Delivery since January 2018.
In June 2014, Alain joined FedDev Ontario as the Vice-President, Policy, Partnerships and Performance Management, where he also assumed the role of Vice-President, Business, Innovation and Community Development from April 2015 to May 2016.
Alain has had a varied career with the federal government beginning with a series of increasingly senior roles at the Privy Council Office (Intergovernmental Affairs), before joining Health Canada. He also worked in the Prime Minister's Office and joined Industry Canada in 2003 as Senior Director, Policy (Industry Sector).
Starting in 2005, Alain has held a number of positions at the director general level at Industry Canada, notably with the Innovation Partnership Branch, the Security and Prosperity Partnership Secretariat, the Communications and Marketing Branch, and the Information and Communications Technologies Branch. Alain was also the Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications (SITT) from October 2012 until July 2013.
Alain holds a master's and bachelor's degree in arts and sciences (political science) from the University of Montréal.
Expertise
Space sciences, Astronomy, Observational astronomy
Job Titles:
- Assistant Research Officer / Construction
Expertise
Sciences, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
From: National Research Council Canada
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Research Officer
Expertise
Data processing, Information Technology, Modelling Software, Semiconductors, Sensors, Materials
From: National Research Council Canada
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- Associate
- Research Officer
Research officer, Materials for Energy Technologies team, Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Center. In charge of NRC's pilot-scale battery manufacturing line.
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- Director General ( Acting )
André Mouton has been with the National Research Council of Canada since 2013, where he currently serves as Director General (acting) for the Quebec region of the Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). Prior to this role, Mr. Mouton was Executive Director for the NRC's International Innovation Office. Previously, he held successive positions as Industrial Technology Advisor and Regional Director in Quebec with NRC IRAP.
Mr. Mouton has over 20 years of experience in the private high-tech sector, covering research and development, strategic international marketing and business development. He also led the deployment of business processes and systems (business intelligence, ERP) across divisions of an international conglomerate to enable decision making based on reliable metrics. He was also part of the management team of a high-tech spin-off, leading international joint development programs and negotiating partnerships with multinationals in Europe, Asia and the US.
Mr. Mouton holds a Master of Science degree - major in physics from the University of Montpellier, France and a Master of Applied Science degree - major in microelectronics from the Polytechnic University of Montréal, Canada.
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- Director General, BMC Project
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- Director Research and Development, Materials and Devices
5) J.Dubowski, Y.Tao and C.Py, "laser-based method for precision and reduced damage patterning of multilayer structures", US patent US 6719916 (April 13, 2004), Canadian patent CA2381643 (Aug 3, 2010).
31) D. Poitras, C-C Kuo and C. Py, "Design of a high-contrast OLED with microcavity effect", Optics Express, 16(11) 8003-8015, 2008.
13) C.Py, "Beam steering by integrated electrodes for brighter FEDs", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 18(2), p679-682, 2000.
On-wafer characterization of semiconductor devices using DC I-V, pulsed I-V, C-V and LCR, and RF s-parameter. RF calibrations and measurements from 1mHz to >50GHz using coax cables and waveguides.
Expertise
Materials, Scientific equipment, Microelectronics, Technology, Software
From: National Research Council Canada
38) C. Py, D. Salim, R. Monette, T. Comas, J. Fraser, D. Martinez, M. Martina, and G. Mealing, "Cell to aperture interaction in patch-clamp chips visualized by fluorescence microscopy and focused-ion beam sections", Biotechnology and Bioengineering 108(8), p1936-41, 2011.
Job Titles:
- VP Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer
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- VP Industrial Research Assistance Program ( IRAP )
President's Science Advisor and Secretary to the President's Research Excellence Advisory Committee
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- Leader
- Vice President
- VP Life Sciences
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan was appointed as Vice President of Life Sciences on a continuing basis as of April 1, 2022. In this capacity, she oversees the Human Health Therapeutics, Aquatic and Crop Resource Development and Medical Devices research centres.
As a globally recognized Life Sciences researcher, Dr. Krishnan has been a leader for driving innovation in the area of vaccine technologies and novel biologics for the improvement of human health. Over the course of her career, she has represented the NRC and the Government of Canada at various national and international joint committees and has been invited as a guest speaker on many occasions. In her current role, she is committed to health innovation and sustainable bio-economy.
Dr. Krishnan joined the NRC in 1997 and, as a scientist, built expertise in immunology research at the Institute for Biological Sciences (IBS), in the areas of vaccine adjuvants and host pathogen interactions. Prior to her current appointment, she was the Director General (DG) of the Human Health Therapeutics (HHT) Research Centre (2018-2022), Program Lead for Vaccines and Immunotherapy (2015-2018), Director of R&D for Immunobiology at HHT (2016-2018), and a research officer (1997-2014) at IBS and HHT. Over the course of her career, Dr. Krishnan has been the recipient of numerous competitive research grants from various agencies including the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH - USA). She has published over 75 primary research articles in peer-reviewed journals in the field of vaccine technologies, host-pathogen and cancer immunity, and is listed as an inventor on several patents. She has significant experience in technology transfer to industrial clients and at the same time has a strong academic background, having mentored several graduate students who have all gone on to have successful research careers. She is member of the board of the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance, National Synthetic Biology Steering Committee and also chaired the Federal Vaccine Research Innovation and Development DG committee, which consists of membership from 13 different federal departments across the Government of Canada.
Dr. Krishnan received her Master's Degree in Bio-medical Genetics from the University of Madras (India) and Ph.D. in Immunology from the National Institute of Immunology in India, following which, she completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Alberta through an Alberta Heritage Foundation scholarship. In her spare time, Dr. Krishnan enjoys travel and outdoor activities with her family and she also volunteers with several not-for-profit organizations for mentoring leadership skills among youth.
VP Human Resources; Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Champion
Job Titles:
- Vice - President, Office of Facilities Renewal Management
36) D. Martinez, M. Martina, R. Monette, T. Comas, L. Kremer, D. Salim, C. Py, M.W. Denhoff and G. Mealing, " Development of patch-clamp chips for mammalian cell applications", invited contribution to the special issue of Micro and Nanosystems on "Synergistic development of microfluidic systems and cellomics", 2(4), p274-79, 2010.
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- Principal
- Research Officer
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- VP Transportation and Manufacturing
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- Chief Digital Research Officer, Chief Science Officer and Departmental Science Advisor
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- Business and Professional Services / Design and Fabrication Services
In our group, we use state-of-the-art airborne instruments to collect and analyze atmospheric data to improve our understanding of the atmospheric processes and cloud microphysics.
Expertise
Economics and Industry, Manufacturing industry, Environment, Air, Arctic & Northern, Weather & Meteorology, Materials, Microscopy, Polymer Composites, Scientific equipment, Sciences, Chemistry, Materials, Physical sciences
From: National Research Council Canada
25) K. Faid, R. Voicu, M. Bani-Yaghoub, R. Tremblay, C. Py, R. Barjovanu, "Rapid fabrication and chemical patterning of polymer microstructures and their applications as a platform for cell cultures", Biomedical Microdevices 7(3), 179-84, 2005.
43) Martinez, D., Py, C., Denhoff, M., Monette, R., Comas, T., Krantis, A. and Geoffrey Mealing G., "Polymer peel-off mask for high resolution surface derivatization, neuron placement and guidance", Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 110(8), pp2236-41, 2013
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- Director General ( Acting )
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- Special Advisor to the President
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- Chief Information Officer
Job Titles:
- Director General ( Acting )