Michel Meunier

is a professor of engineering physics and biomedical engineering at , a position has he held since 1986. He was recently the acting director of the Department of Engineering Physics from 2019 to 2020. He is the director of the Laser Processing and Plasmonics Laboratory (LP2L), which he founded in 1988, whose mission is to develop diagnostic and therapeutic technologies based on plasmonics and the optical properties of colloidal nanoparticles.

University education received his B.Eng. and M.A.Sc. in engineering physics from in 1978 and 1980, respectively, and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.

Career Michel Meunier has been a professor of Engineering Physics at since 1986 and was the interim director of the Department of Engineering Physics for the years 2019/2020.

The activities of his laboratory, the LP2L, mainly focuses on four research axes:

Femtosecond engineering Biomedical nanophotonics Plasmonic nanobiomarker imaging Laser nanosurgery

Entrepreneurship is one of the cofounders of the company LTRIM Technologies, Inc., founded in 1998. Notably, LTRIM Technologies has commercialized a new laser trimming technique for analog circuits. is a joint holder of a patent granted in 2015 for the chemical synthesis of spherical gold-silver alloy nanoparticles used as biomarkers.

Prizes and distinctions 1989: Prize for research and teaching awarded by the Director General of 2002 - 2009: Canada Research Chair 2007: Synergy Prize awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for innovation and exceptional industry collaboration. This award recognizes his participation in the founding of LTRIM technologies, a company that commercialized a new laser trimming technique for analog circuits. 2009–present: Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, awarded in particular for his contributions in the field of laser technology. 2010: Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2012: Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) 2009 - 2016: Renewal of the Canada Research Chair 2016: awarded by the Ministry of Education of Quebec for his exceptional qualifications in university teaching in Quebec