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

CRAQ Coordinator, Instrumentation Project Manager, Université de Montréal

Pierre Bastien

Professor, Université de Montréal

Flavie Bélanger

MSc student, Université de Montréal

Danika Belzile

2026 Trottier Intern, Student at the Université de Montréal

Björn Benneke

Professor, Université de Montréal

Mathis Bouffard

MSc student, Université de Montréal

Érika Le Bourdais

Ph.D. Student, Université de Montréal

Kieron Brandt

2026 Summer Intern, Student at McGill University

Casey Brinkman

Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University

Paul Charbonneau

Professor, Université de Montréal

Katie Christie

2025 and 2026 Summer Intern, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa B.Sc. Student

Nicholas Connors

MSc student, Université de Montréal

Neil Cook

Researcher, Université de Montréal

Louis-Philippe Coulombe

Researcher, Université de Montréal

Nicolas Cowan

Professor, McGill University

Andrew Cumming

Professor, McGill University

Darya Daniels

2026 Summer Intern, Student at the University of British Columbia

Amélie Chiasson David

2025 and 2026 Trottier Summer Intern, McGill B.Sc. Student

Azul Ruiz Diaz

Étudiante MSc, Université de Montréal

Dhvani Doshi

PhD student, McGill University

René Doyon

Director & Professor, Université de Montréal

Patrick Dufour

Professor, Université de Montréal

Gabrielle Ferrari

2026 Summer Intern, Student at the 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

Amélie Gressier

Trottier Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montréal

Lauren Harrison

2026 Trottier Intern, Student at the University of Victoria

Mahesh Herath

Ph.D. Student, McGill University

Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy

Postdoctoral Researcher, McGill University

Alexandrine L’Heureux

Ph.D. Student, Université de Montréal

David Lafrenière

Professor, Université de Montréal