Dr. Lopes obtained his PhD from McGill University in 1996. He was an Associate Professor at Federal University of Para, Brazil, from 1996-2001. In 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 at the rank of Associate Professor and has been a Professor since 2013. His present research interests are power electronics and distributed power generation.
He was a member of the NSERC Solar Buildings Research Network, leading subproject 3.2.a entitled “Development of Interconnection Technologies for Grid-Connected PV Systems”. He was a technical representative for Canada in Task 11 “PV Hybrid Systems within Mini-grids” of IEA-PVPS and the lead author of the report “PV Hybrid Mini-grids: Applicable control Methods for Various Situations.” Dr. Lopes is a Member of the international advisory board of Efficacity, French Urban Energy Transition Institute, since February 2018. He is also a member of the Administration Board and of the Academic Committee of the Institut en Génie de l’Énergie Électrique (IGEE). Dr. Lopes has supervised to completion 9 PhD students, 31 Master of Applied Science students and 95 Bachelor (final year capstone project) students. He has published about 40 journal papers and more than 130 conference papers.Dr. Lopes is a member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) and a senior member of the IEEE.

Louis Gosselin’s research focuses on energy efficiency, particularly in buildings and the industrial sector. In buildings, his work centers on heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and cooling (HVAC-R) systems, building envelopes and fenestration, as well as intelligent system control. Recently, he has explored the energy impacts of occupant behavior, the development of predictive models using artificial intelligence, in-situ monitoring, and the use of bio-based materials. In the industrial sector, his work focuses on process and equipment modeling and optimization, energy data measurement and analysis, and operational and tactical planning to better manage energy and power in the primary aluminum and lumber industries. Louis Gosselin is also interested in the use of renewable energy sources, such as geothermal and solar energy. He is involved in several projects related to the Arctic, including high-performance buildings in the region, the integration of new energy sources, seasonal heat storage, the development of culturally and socially appropriate solutions, and co-design.

Loïc Boulon received the master degree in electrical and automatic control engineering from the University of Lille (France), in 2006. Then, he obtained a PhD in electrical engineering from University of Franche-Comté (France). Since 2010, he is a Professor at UQTR and he works into the Hydrogen Research Institute (Full Professor since 2016).
His work deals with modeling, control and energy management of multiphysics systems. His research interests include hybrid electric vehicles, energy and power sources (fuel cell systems, batteries and ultracapacitors). He has published more than 120 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences and given over 35 invited conferences all over the word. Since 2019, he is the world most cited authors of the topic “Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC); Fuel cells; Cell stack” in Elsevier SciVal.
In 2015, Loïc Boulon was general chair of the IEEE-Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference in Montréal (QC, Canada). Prof. Loïc Boulon is now VP-Motor Vehicles of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and he found the “International Summer School on Energetic Efficiency of Connected Vehicles” and the “IEEE VTS Motor Vehicle Challenge”. He is the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Energy Sources for the Vehicles of the future.

Expertise and research areas:
Optimization algorithms and optimal control
Real-time optimization of industrial systems and processes
Modeling and dynamics of linear and nonlinear systems
Process control
Extreme control
Applications: real-time power maximization of systems using renewable energy sources (photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, microbial fuel cells, hybrid systems, etc.)

Lionel Roué is a professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre Énergie, Matériaux, Télécommunications (INRS-EMT, Canada) since 1998. His research group is focused on the study of electrode materials (especially nanostructured/metastable materials elaborated by high-energy ball milling) for various applications, including Li batteries and Al production. He has also a strong interest in the development of in-situ characterization tools for battery materials such as X-ray tomography, dilatometry and acoustic emission.

Research areas:

• Energy

Expertise:

• Electrical machines and drives
• Simulation and control of electrical networks
• Dynamics and stability of electrical networks
• Hybrid sources of electrical energy