NSERC-GREEN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Voting
- Professor
Job Titles:
- Corporate Director
- Member of the Voting
- Corporate Director - Innovation, Cascades
- Director of the Innovation Center at Cascades
Carl Blanchet is the Director of the Innovation Center at Cascades. He is working on best practices and innovation. He is also working with stakeholders to establish strategic innovation within the company. Member and facilitator of the Québec QG-100 Innovation and Research & Development community, his is looking at adapting the best practices to fit into Cascades culture. During his 23 years at Cascades, he has been plant manager for various Cascades groups, working in manufacturing for both the retail and industrial sector in Québec and Ontario.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director, Printability and Graphic Communications Institute
Chloé Bois holds a PhD in Process Engineering (Fuel Cell Active Layers Manufacturing by Roll-to-Roll Printing Processes) from CNRS (Grenoble) and Master Degrees in Materials Science and Graphic Arts Communication & Engineering both from Grenoble-INP. She was the recipient of a JSPS fellowship (2012) and was a postdoctoral researcher in Organic Electronics Printing at the University of Tokyo. She is the Executive Director at Printability and Graphic Communication Institute (ICI) where she specializes in printed electronics applications industrialization, printed energy and commercialization of innovations.
Dr. Bois expertise covers multi-scale development and manufacturing of innovative product prototyping, functional ink formulation and production industrialization for large volume manufacturing of printed electronics applications.
Job Titles:
- Senior Researcher, Kemitek
David Gendron possesses more than 14 years in R&D. He obtained his Ph.D in chemistry (Thesis: Conjugated polymers for organic solar cells) under the supervision of Pr. Mario Leclerc, Université Laval. Then, he completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one in organic optoelectronic (University of Queensland, Australia) and one in soft robotics (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy). Back in Canada, Dr. Gendron worked in the private sector for 2 years on the development of specialty coatings for digital projection (cinema) and on the design of advanced materials for energy storage applications (lithium metal polymer batteries and supercapacitors). He is currently a senior researcher for Kemitek, whose expertise is directed towards green chemistry and process development. He has published more than 20 publications and several book chapters in high-impact factor journals.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of the Voting
- Vice President, Food Safety and Technical Services, Olymel
Dr. Sylvain Fournaise is responsible for relations with governments and fundamental research projects. With more than 32 years of experience in the food processing industry, including 12 years in key positions at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Dr. Fournaise was recognized by the CFIA with its highest distinction: AgCellence. He is actively involved in several industry committees.
Olymel s.e.c. with its 11,500 employees is the Canadian leader in the pork and poultry meat sectors and we export to more than 60 countries. Since 1998, Mr. Fournaise has orchestrated the development and implementation of corporate programs for Food safety and Quality management including traceability system, animal welfare and labelling.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Voting
- Vice President
- Vice - President Technology
- Vice - President Technology, E2ip Technologies
Francois Lequin, Vice President Technology at e₂ip technologies. He has over 30 years of experience in the Printed Electronics industry. While deeply focused on business development, Francois is well versed in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, strategic planning and R&D management.
As an entrepreneur experienced, a board member, and as a mentor Francois has developed his skills as a manager and administrator. His charismatic leadership and multiple achievements in Research and Development have enabled him to acquire the necessary skills to manage the complete cycle of product development from ideation to fabrication.
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- Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
Geneviève Sauvé was born in Montréal, Canada. She obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Condordia University in 1994 and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institue of Techonology in 1999, working with Prof. Nathan S. Lewis on dye sensitized solar cells. She then spent some time at PPG Industries as a senior development chemist. In 2002, she joined Prof. Richard D. McCullough's group at Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral fellow. Her research focused on structure- property relationship studies of conjugated polymers and diblock copolymers, which included synthesis and testing in organic field effect transistors. Dr. Sauvé was also part of a multidisciplinary team to develop integrated sensors. In 2008, she went to Germany for one year and collaborated with physicists Dr. Fostiropoulos and Prof. Neher on organic photovoltaics. In 2009, she joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland OH, and was promoted to Associate professor in 2015. Prof. Sauvé received the NSF CAREER award in 2012. Her research encompasses synthesis and device-structure property studies of conjugated molecules and polymers for organic electronic applications, with an emphasis on n-type materials for organic solar cells.
Job Titles:
- Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia
Konrad Walus received a B.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Windsor in 2001 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Walus has broad research experience working in microsystems and nanotechnology including over 100 publications in international journals and conferences, books, and workshops on these topics. Dr. Walus was awarded the 2006 Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies, the 2004 Alberta Science and Technology Leaders of Tomorrow Award, as well as several best paper awards. He co-founded the Microsystems and Nanotechnology (MiNa) group at UBC, one of Canada's leading clusters in this area and co-developed the Nanotechnology and Microsystems Undergraduate Program in ECE at UBC. In 2013 he co-founded Aspect Biosystems, an awarded winning and internationally recognized biotechnology company commercializing 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering technology.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Executive Director
- Member of the Voting
- Executive Director, Office of the Vice - President Research, University of Ottawa
- International Secretary of the Royal Society of Canada
- Senior Strategy Advisor With the Office
Marie D'Iorio works as a Senior Strategy Advisor with the Office of the Vice President Research at the University of Ottawa and is the President of NanoCanada, a not for profit corporation. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, she led the National Institute for Nanotechnology (2011-2016) and the Institute for Microstructural Sciences (2003-2011) at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
Dr. D'Iorio obtained a Master's and a Doctorate degree in Solid State Physics from the University of Toronto. After a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at IBM Zurich Research Laboratories, she joined the NRC, where she established Canada's first very low temperature, high magnetic field laboratory to study quantum semiconductor devices; she later led one of Canada's first research programs on organic light emitting devices. In 2015 she launched NanoCanada, a national network for the Canadian nanotechnology community, supporting the translation of advanced materials and nanotechnology into the marketplace.
Dr. D'Iorio is the International Secretary of the Royal Society of Canada. Elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2006, Dr. D'Iorio served as President of its Academy of Science. Dr. D'Iorio is an active member of numerous Boards, including that of the Canadian Light Source (Vice-Chair).
Since September 2021, she is the Chair of the NSERC-GreEN Board of Directors.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Operations and Deputy General Manager, C2MI
Marie-Josée Turgeon joined C2MI in October 2016 as Vice President, Business Development and has been appointed in 2018 as Vice President of Operations and Deputy General Manager. Marie-Josée holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Université Laval and a MBA from Université de Sherbrooke.
For more than 20 years, Marie-Josée has worked in the manufacturing sector of microelectronics. She worked for IBM Bromont in several sectors, including process engineer, manufacturing and engineering manager, accounting and accounts payable manager before being appointed business unit manager where she was responsible for several technical and manufacturing teams. She continued her career as a plant manager for Varitron in Granby where she was fully responsible for managing the operations, human resources and financial resources of the site. Through that experience, she started to be involved in the printed electronic environment and later, when joining C2MI, she participated in the project of bringing printed electronic facilities in the Center. With that capability, C2MI is looking for materials and inks to fuel the innovation in the microelectronic market and that is where the GreEN Network comes into play. Since the markets for both organisations are complementary and the facility installed at C2MI will allow a path to mass production to all potential products developed in the Network the future collaboration will be a success.
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Professor, Dept. of Chemistry
- Scientific Director of GreEN
Mario Leclerc was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry from Université Laval (1987) under the guidance of Prof. R.E. Prud'homme. After a short post-doctoral stay at INRS-Énergie et Matériaux near Montreal with Prof. L.H. Dao, he joined the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, in Mainz, Germany, as a post-doctoral fellow in the research group of Prof. G. Wegner. In 1989, he accepted a position of Professor in the department of chemistry at the Université de Montréal. He returned to Université Laval in 1998. Since 2001, he has held a Canada Research Chair on Electroactive and Photoactive Polymers. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 publications which have already received more than 43 000 citations (h-index of 100, according to Google Scholar). During his career, he received many awards; including the Macromolecular Science and Engineering 2008 award, the Urgel-Archambault prize (2011), a Killam Fellowship (2014-2016), the Marie-Victorin Prize from the Government of Quebec (2016). He is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2017-) and according to Web of Science, he is considered to be among the most influential scientists in the world. His current research activities include the development of new building blocks and polymerization methods (e.g. direct heteroarylation) for applications in plastic electronics.
Mario Leclerc is the Scientific Director of GreEN and his research team is working on the development of new conducting inks based on self-doped conjugated polymers.
Michael G. Helander received a B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has published 104 peer reviewed publications, 8 patents and 2 book chapters. He was a Visiting Scientist at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada and was a Governor General Gold Medal winner, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, and Chorafas Prize winner. Dr. Helander's research interests are in flexible electronics and advanced materials for displays and lighting. Dr. Helander is President & CEO of OTI Lumionics Inc., an advanced materials company based in Toronto. The company is commercializing disruptive materials and process technology for OLED displays and lighting. OLED is the leading display technology used in virtually all high-end consumer electronics and is the next generation of design driven lighting.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Voting
- Associate Vice President / Research / Conestoga College
Michelle Chretien holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa for her work in photochemistry and photophysics. Her thesis was nominated for the Governor General's Medal and was awarded the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists. She joined the Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) in 2007 and held a variety of roles including Global Program Manager for Electronic Materials and Senior R&D Manager in Materials Science developing new materials and processes for 3D printing and printed, hybrid and flexible electronics. She has published 21 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds 75 US patents on novel materials and marking technologies. In 2010, Michelle was recognized by PrintAction as one of the Canadian printing industry's Top 35 Under 35 for her technological contributions. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at McMaster University.
Michelle Chrétien is passionate about the commercialization of innovation and public engagement in science. She is an active participant in the technology and innovation commercialization ecosystem, and sits on a number of committees and boards including the Steering Committee for ReMAP, a Celesitca-led Network Centre of Excellence for accelerating novel electronics manufacturing technologies, the Technical Advisory Board for IntelliFlex, an industry alliance focused on the flexible electronics industry and NSERC-GreEN Network.
Job Titles:
- Director, R & D Security and Disruptive Technologies, National Research Council Canada
Patrick Malenfant studied chemistry at the University of Ottawa (BSc 1995), Cornell University (MSc 1997), and the University of California - Berkeley (PhD 2000). He has 10 years of industrial R&D experience including a one year postdoc at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center and 9 years at the GE Global Research Center where he developed nanomaterials for Aerospace, Healthcare, and Organic Electronics applications. Dr. Malenfant joined the National Research Council of Canada in 2010 as a Senior Research Officer. He is currently the Director of R&D, and Nanomaterials Group Leader in the Security and Disruptive Technologies research center.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Voting
- Professor
Job Titles:
- NSERC - GreEN Manager
- NSERC - GreEN Manager, Dept. of Chemistry
- NSREC - GreEN Manager
Serge Beaupré was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Université Laval in 2004, under the guidance of Prof. Mario Leclerc. The same year, he accepted a position of research associate and project manager at the Laboratory of electroactive and photoactive polymers at Université Laval. Dr. Beaupré's research interests include the synthesis and characterization of conjugated polymers for organic electronics, especially for plastic solar cells and organic field effect-transistors.
As a member of CERMA and CQMF/QCAM, Dr. Beaupré provides strong research support to undergraduates and graduates students. He is the author or co-author of more than 60 publications (5 reviews, 2 book chapters and 2 patents) in organic electronics which have already received more than 8400 (h-index 34).
Serge Beaupré has strong research projects management skills. He managed several research projects funded by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) (2008-2013) and by NSERC-Photovoltaic Innovation Network (2010-2015) involving academia, industrial partners and Prof. Leclerc research team.
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Member of the Voting
- Assistant to the Vice Rector and Director of the Research and Innovation Office
Serge Desnoyers is Assistant to the Vice-President Research & Innovation, Université Laval. He is responsible for research funding development, for the responsible conduct of research, for the Institutional Research Ethics Boards and for the Animal Ethics and Care Programs.
Before joining Université Laval in 2017 as an administrator, he was Assistant Director of the CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (2010-2017). He was responsible for the institute's operations and he shared the responsibilities for the funding programs development with a CIHR Ottawa-based team. He took care of nation-wide funding programs on inflammation, transplantation and the human microbiome. He actively contributed to the creation of GLOPID-R, an international network of research funders dedicated to the coordination of a rapid research response when a pandemic or an epidemic strikes. He also represented Canada on the G7 Working Committee on Neglected Tropical Disease and Poverty Related Diseases. He was co-responsible for the funding program Team Grant: Canada-Latin America- Carribean Zika Virus, and coordinated with European Commission.
Prior to this, he was a biomedical researcher for more than 20 years (1987-2010) in the cancer field where he contributed to a significant paradigm shift in the field of programmed cell death. He authored more than 35 scientific papers, and his research was funded by major funding agencies such as CIHR, NSERC, FRQS, and the Human Frontier Science Program.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Voting
- Chairman of Global Engagement / Georgia Institute of Technology
Job Titles:
- Member of the Voting
- Professor and Former Chair in SFU 's Department of Chemistry
- Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University
Steven Holdcroft is a Professor and former Chair in SFU's Department of Chemistry. His expertise includes solid polymer electrolytes conjugated polymers, macromolecular electronics, and electrochemical energy conversion. He has published 254 peer-reviewed research and his work has more than 9,000 citations; h-index 55. He has been invited to present on the topic of electrochemical materials at 200 national and international conferences, and >70 academic, governmental, and industrial research institutes throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
He led the creation of a national Catalysis Research for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell (CaRPEFC) Strategic Network involving 8 universities and industrial partners. He is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Association. He is an elected Fellow of the CIC and is VP of the Canadian Society for Chemistry. Dr. Holdcroft has trained over 35 graduate students, 20 Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates, and more than 30 undergraduates.
Sylvie Turgeon is a Professor in the Department of Food Science at Université Laval, Director of the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) and co-director of the joint research unit on gastronomic sciences, which involves researchers from ITHQ and U. Laval. Previously, Dr. Turgeon was the Director of the STELA Dairy Research Centre for 9 years. She has trained 35 MSc and 25 PhD students. Dr Turgeon's main scientific interests aim to understand the molecular interactions in food to apprehend the functionality of proteins and polysaccharides. INAF aims to get involved in the GreEN to put the expertise of its members in the service of bringing together researchers and users of research in the agri-food sector.
Job Titles:
- Leader of the Organic Materials and Devices Team at NRC 's Advanced Electronics
- Principal Research Officer, Organic Materials and Devices, National Research Council Canada
Ye Tao is the leader of the Organic Materials and Devices team at NRC's Advanced Electronics and Photonics Research Centre, and the leader of the Functional Devices Thrust of NRC's Printable Electronics Flagship Program. Dr. Tao research interest has been in the areas of organic semiconductor materials and devices, material structure-property relationship, charge transport and recombination behavior, surface and interface physics and chemistry. His current research focus is on printable/flexible/wearable electronic devices and circuits, smart surfaces, detectors, sensors, and the development of low costs manufacturing processes. Dr. Tao has published over 150 scientific papers in peer refereed journals with an h-index of 51, and holds over 25+ US and international patents