Regular researcher
Désirée B. Maltais
Physiotherapist, her research focuses on the evaluation of mobility and physical fitness, as well as on the determinants of physical activity and the interventions aiming to improve the level of physical activity in people with physical disabilities, and particularly in children and teens.
Daphney St-Germain
Trained Nurse, her research interests focus on the safety of patients and continuous improvement of quality of care in relation with the humanization of care and professionel development.
Daoud Ait-Kadi
Pr. Ait-Kadi is an expert in the field of reliability, maintenance, integrated logistics support and design and piloting value creation networks with industry and the scientific community. His specialties are reliability/maintenance, design and management of value creation networks, life cycle engineering and reverse logistics. Professor Ait-Kadi has received several distinctions in both teaching and research.
Claude Vincent
Trained Occupational Therapist, her research focuses on populations with motor, auditory or visual impairments, and particularly on the evaluation of rehabilitation technologies and their effect on homecare, social participation and functional autonomy. She is also passionate about the measure of usability of assistive devices (e.g., reading aids, writing aids, mobility and orientation aids) with these same populations.
Emilie Raymond
Trained Social Worker and Anthropologist, her research interests aim for social participation and citizenship, and particularly elderly people with disabilities. She studies political issues and the experience of social players in a perspective of social inclusion. She focuses on participative and empancipatory research approaches.
Élise Milot
Remedial Teacher, her research focuses on the social inclusion of adults and elders with intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder, as well as on family support. Her exclusively participative studies aim at experimenting innovative strategies focusing on the development of community capacities.
Chantal Desmarais
Speech Therapist, her research focuses on dysphasia aiming at designing evaluation and intervention methods based on scientific facts, specifically the understanding of language in young adults, the effect of speech therapy interventions, as well as language abilities,academic success and interventions with children from immigrant families.
Philippe Corbeil
Mechanical Engineer, his research focuses on the prevention of muskuloskeletal problems in jobs with physical constraints.
Carol L. Richards
Carol L. Richards, OC, CQ, PhD, Pht, FACSS, is a retired Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation of the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval. A physiotherapist by training, her research activities have helped redefine the clinical management and social integration of people who have suffered a stroke. She has extensive administrative experience as the Founding Director of the Department of Physiotherapy, the Provincial Network for Adaptation-Rehabilitation Research (REPAR) and CIRRIS, and as a member of numerous boards of directors, including the Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Centres of Excellence. Ms. Richards was crowned an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010, and a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec in 2017.
Benoit Gosselin
Benoît Gosselin specializes in the field of new biomedical technologies. He is responsible for a multidisciplinary research program focused on the design of innovative biomedical microsystems. His areas of interest are bioelectronics and high-precision biomedical instrumentation, wireless optoelectronic microsystems for neuroengineering, analog/mixed and RF integrated circuits dedicated to brain-machine interfaces, interface circuits for implantable sensors and actuators, wireless diagnostic and mobile care devices, intelligent control interfaces for assistive robotics and multi-technology microsystem integration and 3D encapsulation.
Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi
Geomatics Specialist, his research work focuses on geographical information systems, complex human-environmental interactions, the design and development of new methods/geospatial technology (spatial data models, GPS, GIS, LIDAR, captor networks, 5G technology, VR, RA, artificial intelligence) in reaction to the complex stakes of cities and intelligent and inclusive mobility solutions in an ecosystem approach supporting health, wellbeing and social participation in the elderly or disabled.
