Caroline Boudoux

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Caroline Boudoux is a Canadian biomedical engineer and optical engineer whose research involves combining lasers and fiber optics to develop tools for medical imaging, including optical coherence tomography and confocal endomicroscopy. She is a professor of engineering physics at Polytechnique Montréal, affiliated with the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, the Biomedical Engineering Institute of the Université de Montréal, and the Quebec Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers. [1]

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Education and career

Boudoux is originally from Saint-Nicolas, Quebec; [2] her parents, a forest engineer and a pharmacist and teacher, came to Canada from Belgium. [3] She writes that her interest in biomedical engineering began when she saw an exhibit of Leonardo da Vinci anatomical illustrations, at age five. [4] She has a bachelor's degree from Université Laval and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Brett Bouma and Guillermo J. Tearney. [1]

Before joining Polytechnique Montréal, she became a postdoctoral researcher in France, at the École polytechnique in Paris, working there with Emmanuel Beaurepaire and Manuel Joffre. [1] She became an assistant professor of engineering physics at Polytechnique Montréal in 2007, and was promoted to full professor in 2018. [5]

She co-founded a spin-off company, Castor Optics, in 2013. [1] She visited Stanford University as a Fulbright Fellow in 2015. [1] [4] She is a member of the board of directors of the Institut National d'Optique and of Optica. [1]

Books

Boudoux is the author of books on engineering including: [5] [4]

Recognition

Boudoux was named as a fellow of SPIE in 2020, [5] and as a 2025 Fellow of Optica. [1] In 2023 the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec honored her with their "Honoris Genius" award. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Caroline Boudoux", Board of directors, Optica , retrieved 2025-04-13
  2. ↑ Lavoie, Kathleen (6 March 2018), "Ces femmes qui ont fait bouger Québec", Le Soleil (in French), retrieved 2025-04-13
  3. ↑ Lortie, Marie-Claude (23 July 2017), "Caroline Boudoux en quelques choix", La Presse (in French), retrieved 2025-04-13
  4. 1 2 3 Celi, Carolina (26 July 2024), "A journey from Leonardo da Vinci to biomedical engineering", Fulbright scholar interviews, Fulbright Canada, retrieved 2025-04-13
  5. 1 2 3 La professeure Caroline Boudoux reçoit le titre de Fellow de la société SPIE (in French), Polytechnique Montréal, 13 February 2020, retrieved 2025-04-13
  6. ↑ It Goes Without Saying: MIT Press, 2024, ISBN   9780262378987, doi:10.7551/mitpress/15199.001.0001. Reviews:
  7. ↑ Soirée de l'excellence en génie de l'Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec : 12 ingénieurs et ingénieures d'exception honorés (in French), Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, 1 June 2023, retrieved 2025-04-13
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