Jean-Michel Ménard, University of Ottawa, is Associate Professor in the department of physics and cross-appointed to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at uOttawa. He holds the University Research Chair in Quantum THz Photonics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toronto in 2011 under the supervision of Henry van Driel. Then, he conducted postdoctoral research projects with Rupert Huber at the University of Regensburg (2011-2014) as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and with Philip Russell at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (2014-2015).
In 2016, he founded the uOttawa Ultrafast THz laboratory focusing on the development and demonstration of photonics systems for materials characterization.