In the late sixteenth century, a distinctive Italian painting style emerged, characterized by the contrast of light and darkness, known as chiaroscuro. While this artistic development is often seen as a stylistic or optical advancement, My PhD dissertation argues that the light-dark interplay in Italian Counter-Reformation paintings, especially those showing a repentant figure, has deep […]

This project investigates biomechanical risk factors associated with non-specific low back pain in road cyclists. Using motion capture and isokinetic core strength testing, spinal movement patterns and muscular deficits are analyzed during cycling under controlled laboratory conditions and highly realistic treadmill cycling with the athlete’s own bicycle. The goal is to better understand how segmental […]

Globular star clusters are massive, ancient, spherical collections of stars which orbit, in the hundreds, within nearly every galaxy in the universe, including our own Milky Way. These old systems provide a cosmic fossil record of the earliest epochs of galaxies, about 12 billion years ago, and they are key for understanding how our own […]

Mon projet vise à mieux comprendre ce que vivaient et ressentaient les soldats de la Grande Armée de Napoléon, au-delà des récits officiels centrés sur les batailles. À partir de lettres, carnets de campagne et journaux personnels, je constituerai un corpus de sources manuscrites conservées au Service historique de la Défense (archives militaires à Vincennes, […]

À une époque qui discute abondamment de “concepts”, le projet de recherche vise à mieux comprendre ce que sont les concepts et la manière dont ils organisent la pensée et l’action d’un être pensant. Le projet s’appuie sur une interprétation de la philosophie de Hegel, en particulier sur l’idée selon laquelle un concept fonctionne comme […]

Understanding spoken language requires integrating multiple acoustic and physical properties of the speech signal into composite representations. This proposal is part of a larger international collaboration aimed at understanding how pitch—a fundamental property of language—is encoded in the brains of speakers across a wide range of languages (e.g., English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese), each of […]

This research project aims to better understand whether listening to music can improve sleep and daytime functioning, such as mood, fatigue, and concentration, in the general population. The project will consist of a systematic review of scientific studies that have examined the effects of music listening on sleep across different age groups and health conditions. […]

Circa 1480 the Abbess of the convent of Sant’ Ambrogio in Florence commissioned the artist Cosimo Rosselli, to paint the fresco Procession of the Holy Miracle in her convent church. In the painting the nuns of Sant’ Ambrogio gather on the threshold of the church before a crowd which includes portraits of well-connected Florentine men. […]

ESSA Technologies Ltd. is an employee-owned Canadian environmental consulting company that combines science, systems thinking, and collaboration to address complex environmental challenges. With offices in Vancouver and Ottawa, ESSA supports clients across Canada and internationally through evidence-based decision-making, sustainability planning, and adaptive management solutions. As the company continues to expand its client base and internal […]

The objective of this project is to identify Industry 5.0 indicators applicable to supply chains. The concept of Industry 5.0 is relatively new, so companies still face the challenge of how to incorporate its three pillars—sustainability, resilience, and human-centricity—into their operations. Identifying performance indicators related to these pillars is a step forward, as companies use […]

Au Canada, plus de 90 000 personnes sont atteintes de la sclérose en plaques. Cette maladie neurodégénérative et auto-immune, médiée par l’inflammation, touche le système nerveux central. Les lésions, principalement de la matière blanche, sont à l’origine de perturbations de la transmission de l’influx nerveux entre le système nerveux central et le reste du corps. […]

Ce projet vise à développer de nouveaux matériaux lumineux appelés 3D-COFs capables d’émettre une phosphorescence à température ambiante. En intégrant des atomes lourds comme le silicium ou l’étain dans leur structure, nous cherchons à comprendre comment renforcer cette lumière durable. Ces matériaux pourraient servir à créer des capteurs plus sensibles et de nouveaux dispositifs optoélectroniques.