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Prof. Simon Thibault, PhD, Eng.

Professor Simon Thibault is currently Director of the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at Université Laval, and a researcher in optical design. He obtained his bachelor's degree in engineering physics in 1994, a master's degree in physics in 1995, and his doctorate in 1998 from Université Laval (Québec). Since then, he has been recognized as a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) (2021) and a Fellow of SPIE (2018). He is involved in several Optica and SPIE conferences, including chairing the IODC International Optical Design Conference in June 2023. In recent years, he has been associate editor of the following journals Optical Engineering and Optics Express.

Simon Thibault has held an NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Optical Design since 2008. With a budget of over $500K per year, the Chair focuses on the development of advanced optical systems and optical design techniques, as well as manufacturing and characterization methods, and is integrated with the Laboratoire de recherche en ingénierie optique (LRIO), which he has also headed since 2008. He is currently scientific manager for optical component manufacturing (diamond turning and polishing of optics).

Prof. Thibault is the author and co-author of more than 30 patents and more than 300 communication techniques in conferences and journals in optics.


Denis Brousseau, PhD
Research associate


Expertise: Lens design, metrology, astronomical instrumentation, adaptive optics


Béatrice Lessard-Hamel
Research associate


Expertise: Optical engineering, microscopy, instrumentation


Hugues Auger
Senior technician


Expertise: Fabrication, instrumentation, optical test, assembly and characterisation, thin films, microfabrication


Guillaume Allain
PhD student


Project: Development of bio-inspired optical systems


Samira Arabpou
PhD student


Project: Modeling, optimisation and fabrication of lens-less imager


Jeck Borne
PhD student


Project: Modeling the optical properties of a metasurface in the context of optical desing


Julie Buquet
PhD student


Project: Study of the influence of non-linear distortion of wide angle images on convolutional neural networks for depth estimation


Joseph Gaulin
Master's student


Project: Development of a Two-Photon Volumetric Projection System


Jason Guénette
PhD student


Project: Modal wavefront sensor concept using photonic crystals and nanostructures


Awatif Hiti
PhD student


Project: Magnetic Deformation in Silicone Mirrors


Alexis Horik
Master's student


Project: 3D dosimetry by tomographic reconstruction of a scintillating volume


Maria Hovakimyan
PhD student


Project: Dynamic focus and distortion correction in panoramic imaging by using liquid crystal foveal lens


Félix Lévesque-Desrosiers
PhD student


Project: Towards automatization of snow properties measurements


Paul Parant
PhD student


Project: Reduction of the design constraints of digital holographic microscopes by the numerical correction of their aberrations


Nicolas Payeur
Master's student


Projet: Characterization of Atmospheric turbulence at 40 kilometers


Sédick Rabia
PhD student


Project: Study, characterization, development, and optimization of experimental setups for 3D imaging with the support of optical design


Maxime Royer
PhD student


Project: Thermodynamic analysis of HII regions with the help of Monte-Carlo code and the SITELLE instrument


Rajbir Singh
Étudiant au doctorat


Project: Fabrication, Assembly, and Test of image slicer unit for GIRMOS.


Philippe St-jean
Master's student


Project: Deployable Lightweight Mirrors for Space Applications


Gabriel Tayama
Post-doc


Project: Glass Additive Manufacturing


Koichi Watanabe-Brouillette
Master's student


Project: EMCCD Technologies for Recognition and Awareness of Space Debris with HiCIBaS-II (TRASH)