My Thesis in 400 Words – Kim Morel
Kim Morel, a MSc student at IREx, recently completed her degree at the Université de Montréal. Here she summarizes her research project When an exoplanet passes behind its star during its orbit, the...
View ArticleLisa Đặng at the 73rd meeting of Nobel laureates in Lindau
Lisa Đặng, a Banting postdoctoral fellow who has been with IREx for several years, recently attended the 73rd Nobel Laureates’ Meeting in Lindau, Germany. This prestigious event, held from June 30 to...
View ArticleIREx Researchers Contribute to Stunning New Webb Observations of Star-Forming...
Researchers at the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) are celebrating their contribution to a new study of NGC 1333 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The mosaic...
View ArticleTaking a star’s temperature
UdeM astronomers find a way to measure temperature changes in a star with greater-than-ever precision, a breakthrough that promises to be particularly useful for detecting and studying exoplanets....
View ArticleAstronomers at IREx Dive Deeper into “Steam-World” Exoplanet GJ 9827 d
A recent paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters, led by Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Montréal’s Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx), in...
View ArticlePrix Marie-Victorin: another star for René Doyon
René Doyon, professor in the Department of Physics at Université de Montréal, is the 2024 recipient of the Prix Marie-Victorin. Awarded by the Quebec government, this prestigious recognition is given...
View ArticleDiscovery of an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone – Interview with...
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy a Postdoctoral researcher at McGill University with the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx), played a key role in a recent study revealing the existence of...
View ArticleMy time at iREx: Roseane de Lima Gomes
Roseane de Lima Gomes joined IREx in May 2023 to complete an internship at the Université de Montréal as a fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq,...
View ArticleAlexandrine L’Heureux wins the Lumbroso Grant for IREx Ambassadors in 2024
Alexandrine L’Heureux, IREx member and doctoral student at Université de Montréal, is this year’s recipient of the Lumbroso Grant for IREx Ambassadors. On October 28, she had the opportunity to chat...
View ArticleMy time at IREx : Yayaati Chachan
Yayaati Chachan joined IREx in September 2022. He was a CITA National and MSI fellow at McGill University up until the Fall of 2024, when he started a postdoctoral research position at UC Santa Cruz....
View Article