Principal Investigator

• Full professor in the Department of Civil and Water Engineering – Université Laval

• Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Water Engineering

• Regular member of the Quebec Water Research Center (CentrEau)

• Regular member of the Centre for Northern Studies (CEN)

• Visiting professor, Dalhousie University

Research professionals

Pierre-Erik Isabelle, ing., Ph. D.

Ph.D. Students

Antoine Thiboult, Ph. D.

Dmitry Pershin

Alexis Bédard-Therrien

Master's Students

Emmanuelle Barrette

Thomas Brady

Laurence Charbonneau

Étienne Tremblay

Deirdre Spearns

Katrine Trottier

Benoit Brault, ing., M. Sc.

Snow | Hydrology |
Forest canopy

2024 -

Lake Ice | Field Monitoring | Lake Model

2024 -

Cold region hydrology | Modelling | Hydrometeorology

2022 -

Permafrost | Energy balance | Shrub expansion

2024 -

Albedo | Radiative forcing | Northern reservoirs

2024 -

Hydro-geophysics | Seasonal snowpack hydrology | Cold-regions flood risk

2024 -

Snow Water Equivalent | Arctic Snow | Water Vapor Flux

2025 -

Rain-on-snow | Snowpack energy balance | Snowmelt

2023 -

Flood | Database management | Experience feedback

Surface energy balance | Water and carbon fluxes | Boreal environments

Hydrometeorology | Surface energy balance | Eddy-covariance

Aashna Verma

Modelling | Cryosphere-hydrology | Climate change

2025 -

Daniel Nadeau, ing., Ph. D

Dany Blanchet

Modeling | Drought
| Evaporation

2026 -

Clara Kavadias

Forest albedo | Silvicultural distrubances
| Forest water resilience

2026 -

Daphne Vaes

Boreal forest snow | Modeling
| Snow Energy Balance

2026 -

Alumnis

M. Sc.
Trottier-Paquet, Alexis (2026)
Gagnon, Clarence (2026)
Labelle, Jérémie (2026)
Bolduc, Gabriel (2026)
Pouliot, Mélix (2025)
Domart, Doris (2023)
Brault, Benoit (2022)
Beaudoin, Geneviève (2022)
Fournier, Judith (2020)
Girard, Médéric (2019)
Mailhot, Edouard (2018)
Irambona, Céleste (2016)
Girard, Pascale (2016)

Post-docs
Ryu, Kyoungho (2026)
Alves, Marco (2021)
Maheu, Audrey (2016)

Ph. D
Ben Aba, Imen (2026)
Bellamy, Daniel (2025)
Bouchard, Benjamin (2024)
Kallel, Habiba (2023)
Pierre, Adrien (2022)
Lackner, Georg (2021)
Hadiwijaya, Bram (2021)
Parajuli, Achut (2020)
Alves, Marco Alvarenga (2020)
Isabelle, Pierre-Erik (2019)
Hang, Chaoxun (2017)
Jensen, Derek (2016)