Our team
The Institute for research on exoplanets (Institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes, or IREx) consists of about 40 professors, researchers and postdoctoral fellows and students from the Université de Montréal and McGill University. The team also collaborates with many other international organizations for its different projects.
Professors
Regular members
- Björn Benneke, Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal
- Nicolas Cowan, Assistant Professor McGill University
- Andrew Cumming, Professor at McGill University
- René Doyon, Professor at Université de Montréal
- David Lafrenière, Associate Professor at Université de Montréal
- Eve Lee, Assistant Professor McGill University
Associate members
- Pierre Bastien, Professor at Université de Montréal
- Patrick Dufour, Associate Professor at Université de Montréal
- Gilles Fontaine, Professor at Université de Montréal
- Jason Rowe, Adjunct Professor at Bishop’s University
- Simon Thibault, Professor at Université Laval
Researchers
- Loïc Albert, Researcher at Université de Montréal, JWST NIRISS team
- Mohamad Ali-Dib, Postdoctoral Researcher at Université de Montréal
- Étienne Artigau, Project Scientist at Université de Montréal, NIRPS, SPIRou, MOVIES and JWST NIRISS teams
- Neil Cook, Researcher at Université de Montréal, NIRPS and SPIRou teams
- Jonathan Gagné, Banting post-doctoral fellow and Trottier post-doctoral fellow at Université de Montréal
- Claire Guimond, Research Associate with Nicolas Cowan‘s group
- Lison Malo, Researcher at Université de Montréal, NIRPS team, and resident astronomer at Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic
- Nathalie Ouellette, Coordinator of iREx and Canadian Outreach Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
- Geert Jan Talens, Postdoctoral Researcher at Université de Montréal, JWST team
Direction and Administration
- René Doyon, Director of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets
- Frédérique Baron, Scientific and EPO Coordinator
- Marie-Eve Naud, Scientific and EPO Coordinator (on parental leave)
- Nathalie Ouellette, Coordinator of iREx and Canadian Outreach Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
Students
Ph.D.
- Frédérique Baron, Université de Montréal, supervisor: David Lafrenière, Étienne Artigau
- Taylor Bell, McGill University, supervisor: Nicolas Cowan
- Anne Boucher, Université de Montréal, supervisor: David Lafrenière
- Ryan Cloutier, University of Toronto and Université de Montréal, supervisors: Kristen Menou, René Doyon
- Lisa Dang, McGill University, supervisor: Nicolas Cowan
- Antoine Darveau-Bernier, Université de Montréal, supervisors: René Doyon, David Lafrenière
- Rafael Fuentes, Université McGill, supervisor : Andrew Cumming
- Prashansa Gupta, Université de Montréal, supervisor: Björn Benneke
- Farbod Jahandar, Université de Montréal,supervisor : René Doyon
- Dylan Keating, McGill University, supervisors: Nick Cowan and René Doyon
- François-René Lachapelle, Université de Montréal, supervisor: David Lafrenière
- Christopher Mann, Université de Montréal, supervisor: David Lafrenière
- Keavin Moore, Université McGill, supervisor: Nicolas Cowan
M.Sc.
- Simon-Gabriel Beauvais, Université de Montréal, supervisor: René Doyon
- Charles Cadieux, Université de Montréal, supervisor: René Doyon
- Jonathan Chan, Université de Montréal, supervisor: Björn Benneke
- Dominic Couture, Université de Montréal, supervisor: René Doyon
- Marie-Eve Desrochers, Université de Montréal, supervisor: René Doyon
- Maude Fortin-Archambault, Université de Montréal, directeur : Patrick Dufour
- Frédéric Genest, Université de Montréal, supervisor: David Lafrenière
- Raphaël Hardy, Université de Montréal, supervisors : Paul Charbonneau, Andrew Cumming
- Melissa Marquette, Université McGill, supervisor: Nicolas Cowan
- Stefan Pelletier, Université de Montréal, supervisor: Björn Benneke
- Merrin Peterson, Université de Montréal, supervisor: Björn Benneke
- Steven Rogowski, Université de Montréal, supervisor: Björn Benneke
- Jonathan St-Antoine, Université de Montréal, supervisor: René Doyon