Tigran Galstian
Professeur titulaire, ing., département de physique, de génie physique et d'optique
Tigran Galstian (or Galstyan) started his studies at the Physics Department of Yerevan State University, Armenia (former Soviet Union). He received M.Sc. (Solid State Lasers) and Ph.D. degrees (Quantum Electronics) from the Special Department of Physics at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia. He spent several years as PostDoc researcher in Armenia and France and then moved to Canada where he is currently professor, head of the laboratory of Photonic Materials and Component at Université Laval (Quebec, Canada) as well as holder of Canada’s research chair in Liquid Crystals and Behavioral Biophotonics. His main research interests are in self-aligned molecular systems and their applications in electrooptic materials and in biology. His group is investigating the molecular self-organization mechanisms and their impact on key material properties as well as their influence on the behavior of light (focusing, divergence, color), molecules (diffusion of chiral “medical” molecules) and living microorganisms (bacteria). He has co-authored more than 800 scientific, technical and vulgarization communications, including more than 260 articles and 52 awarded patents. He was the co-founder of high-tech companies, Photintech (Quebec, Canada; commercializing “Electrically variable fiber optic components”); LensVector (San Jose, USA; commercializing “Electrically variable beam shaping components”) where he is currently the CTO; and PATQER (Quebec, Canada; commercializing “Polarization imaging devices”) where he is a scientific advisor.