Our Team

The iREx includes an expanding team of over 50 people (professors, researchers and students) mainly from the Université de Montréal, McGill University, Bishop's University and the Université Laval, all working on various research programs linked to the study of exoplanets and related fields.

Direction, Administration & EPOProfessorsResearchersStudentsStudent Interns

Roman Akhmetshyn

M.Sc. Student, McGill University

Loïc Albert

Researcher, Université de Montréal

Romain Allart

Postdoctoral Researcher, Université de Montréal

Étienne Artigau

Researcher, Université de Montréal

Frédérique Baron

Interim IREx and OMM Deputy Director, CRAQ Coordinator, Instrumentation Project Manager, Université de Montréal

Pierre Bastien

Professor, Université de Montréal

Luc Bazinet

MSc student, Université de Montréal

Ikram Beghdadi

2025 Instrumentation Summer Intern, Polytechnique Montréal graduate

Björn Benneke

Professor, Université de Montréal

Samuel Boucher

2025 & 2024 Summer Intern, Université de Montréal B.Sc. Student

Mathis Bouffard

MSc student, Université de Montréal

Érika Le Bourdais

Ph.D. Student, Université de Montréal

Ali Cachero

2025 Trottier Summer Intern, McGill B.Sc. Student

Charles Cadieux

Ph.D. Student, Université de Montréal

Kaiwen (Kevin) Chen

2025 Summer Intern, John Abbott College Student

Katie Christie

2025 Summer Intern, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa B.Sc. Student

Sean Collins

2025 Trottier Summer Intern, University of British Columbia B.Sc. Student

Nicholas Connors

MSc student, Université de Montréal

Neil Cook

Researcher, Université de Montréal

Louis-Philippe Coulombe

Ph.D. Student, Université de Montréal

Nicolas Cowan

Professor, McGill University

Andrew Cumming

Professor, McGill University

Lisa Dang

Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montréal

Laurie Dauplaise

MSc Student, Université de Montréal

Amélie Chiasson David

2025 Trottier Summer Intern, McGill B.Sc. Student

Dhvani Doshi

PhD student, McGill University

René Doyon

Director & Professor, Université de Montréal

Patrick Dufour

Professor, Université de Montréal

Clémence Fontanive

Trottier Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montréal

Jonathan Gagné

Scientific Advisor, Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium & Adjunct Professor, Université de Montréal

Frédéric Genest

Ph.D. Student, Université de Montréal

Jennifer Glover

PhD student, McGill University

Raphaël Hardy

Ph.D. Student, Université de Montréal

Mahesh Herath

Ph.D. Student, McGill University

Katrina Jabs

2025 Trottier Summer Intern, University of Calgary B.Sc. Student

Amalia Karalis

2021 Summer Intern