Caroline Boudoux
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]
Education and career
[edit]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
[edit]Boudoux is the author of books on engineering including:[5][4]
- Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics (Pollux, 2017)
- Introduction à la conception en ingénierie (Pollux, 2017)
- Tools of Optics (Pollux, 2019)
- It Goes Without Saying: Taking the Guesswork Out of Your PhD in Engineering (MIT Press, 2024)[6]
Recognition
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Caroline Boudoux", Board of directors, Optica, retrieved 2025-04-13
- ^ Lavoie, Kathleen (6 March 2018), "Ces femmes qui ont fait bouger Québec", Le Soleil (in French), retrieved 2025-04-13
- ^ Lortie, Marie-Claude (23 July 2017), "Caroline Boudoux en quelques choix", La Presse (in French), retrieved 2025-04-13
- ^ a b c Celi, Carolina (26 July 2024), "A journey from Leonardo da Vinci to biomedical engineering", Fulbright scholar interviews, Fulbright Canada, retrieved 2025-04-13
- ^ a b c La professeure Caroline Boudoux reçoit le titre de Fellow de la société SPIE (in French), Polytechnique Montréal, 13 February 2020, retrieved 2025-04-13
- ^ It Goes Without Saying: MIT Press, 2024, ISBN 9780262378987, doi:10.7551/mitpress/15199.001.0001. Reviews:
- Hoanca, Bogdan (8 August 2024), "Review", Optics & Photonics News
- Guevara, Edgar (March 2025), Journal of Optics, doi:10.1007/s12596-025-02684-w
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- ^ 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
External links
[edit]- Caroline Boudoux publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- Living people
- People from Lévis, Quebec
- Canadian people of Belgian descent
- 21st-century Canadian engineers
- Canadian women engineers
- Canadian academics in engineering
- Canadian bioengineers
- Women bioengineers
- Optical engineers
- Women in optics
- Université Laval alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Academic staff of Polytechnique Montréal
- Fellows of SPIE
- Fellows of Optica (society)