Staff

Details: Mario Méthot, PhD
Neurophotonics Research Center and Biophotonics Program Coordinator

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Phone: (418) 663-5747 #4743
Fax: (418) 663-5873
Location: CRULRG
2601 Chemin de la Canardière
Office F - 5577
Québec - QC - G1J 2G3

Mario Méthot completed his PhD studies in 2009 at Laval University in cellular and molecular biology in the Ophtalmology research unit. His passion for neurons and light is not new, as attested by his previous studies in Biophysics (BSc and MSc obtained at the Photobiophysics research centre in Trois-Rivières, UQTR, Québec) and Neurological Sciences (MSc obtained at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University).

Attracted by new scientific challenges and the interaction between optics and medical sciences, he joined the CRULRG in late November 2009 to manage the infrastructure strategic planning and the implementation and development of the 22,000 square feet facility known as the "Neurophotonics Center" (CNP). His tasks also include administering the Neurophysics group budgets, negotiating new partnerships with private and public partners, increasing the CNP exposure to help position the research center as an international leader in neurophotonics while occasionally representing the CNP at international meetings, and organizing the yearly international ‘Frontiers in Neurophotonics’ Summer School.

Mario Méthot is finally in charge of the coordination of the new graduate program in Biophotonics at Université Laval.