Jocelyn Bouchard earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in materials engineering and metallurgy in 2001 and 2004, respectively, and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 2007. He began his career as a metallurgist in process control at the Niobec Mine in 2005 before joining Xstrata Process Support in 2007 as a process control engineer. In 2010, he became a senior mineral processing and process control engineer at Genivar.

A professor at Université Laval since 2012, he held the Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. and ArcelorMittal Mines Leadership Chair in Mineral Processing Engineering until 2017. His expertise lies in phenomenological modeling and simulation, as well as the control and optimization of mineral and pharmaceutical processes. His research focuses particularly on reducing the energy footprint of mineral processing plants. In recent years, he has distinguished himself through the development of a library of mineral processing simulation models on the Matlab/Simulink platform and its use in designing control systems that streamline the energy required for mineral processing.

Affiliated with the Department of Chemical Engineering, Mr. Bouchard was also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom in 2019-2020. His industrial collaborators include companies such as Pfizer, Nemaska ​​Lithium, BBA, Canadian Malartic Mine, Corem, InnovExplo, Agnico Eagle Mines and Iamgold, as well as government agencies such as the National Research Council of Canada and CanmetMINES.