Full professor & rookie entrepreneur, Prof. Boudoux obtained her PhD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program (USA). She then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Ecole Polytechnique (France) before starting her laboratory, in 2007, at Polytechnique Montreal (Canada). Her research topics range from laser-tissue interactions to novel hardware for imaging. With a colleague and strategic investors, she later founded Castor Optics, a spin-off company commercializing a new line of double-clad fibers couplers.