Réjean Fontaine

Réjean Fontaine received the bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada, in 1991 and 1999, respectively. After spending a few years in the industry as the Research and Development Manager, he got back to academia with Université de Sherbrooke in 2001, where he is currently a Full Professor with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Department. He successfully engineered three positron emission tomography scanners dedicated to small and mid-sized animal imaging. These works conducted to innovations related to electronic integration in the fields recognized by many awards. He is the first awardee of the IEEE Emilio Gatti Radiation Instrumentation Technical Achievement Award (2019). He manages the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 dedicated to the time of flight positron emission tomography. He is also the head of the micro-SENS and time-of-flight computed tomography research groups. In 2012, he founded the 3IT.micro, a platform dedicated to microelectronics assembly (solder bumps, wirebonding, and thermocompression), where he still manages. He also developed a strong expertise in designing microsystems from its concept to a functional product transferable to the industry. He has authored more than 250 scientific contributions, including international journals, books, and conferences. His current research interests include the time of flight PET and time of flight computed tomography (ToF-CT), a new research area his team introduced in 2018, and microelectronics dedicated to brain interface.