Welcome!

I am a professor in the Department of Civil and Water Engineering at Université Laval, in beautiful Québec City. My research focuses on environmental fluid mechanics — understanding how water moves and mixes, why it does so, and how these processes shape the natural environment.

To investigate these questions, I combine in-situ observations with numerical modeling, often developing custom models or using field data from challenging environments such as Arctic fjords and northern lakes.

Here are a few examples of my research interests:

Ice–ocean interactions in glacial fjords: how ocean circulation is influenced by coastal ice structures (tidewater glaciers, ice shelves), and how the melting and freezing of these ice masses are coupled to ocean dynamics.

Vertical mixing in lakes: identifying and quantifying the physical mechanisms that control vertical mixing, and assessing how they affect water quality (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, trace metals, etc.).

Under-ice eddies: mesoscale (1–10 km) rotating features found under ice in lakes, estuaries, and oceans. I study how they form and how they redistribute heat, salt, and momentum beneath the ice cover.

Density plumes: exploring how a plume entering a water body mixes depending on its density contrast, bathymetry, and local turbulence — for example, rivers entering lakes or treated effluents discharged into coastal waters.

Feel free to reach out by email if you’d like to learn more about my work or discuss potential collaborations!