Projects
Climate effects in a large health insurance Canadian cohort (2026—) 👤🇨🇦
As part as my postdoctoral fellowship at McGill, funded by CIHR.
- Assessing the relationship between environmental exposures and medication dispensations
- Studying various exposures such as extreme temperatures, wildfires and flooding
- Collaborating with a leading health insurer in Canada
Climate-related health costs and adaptation measures (2025—) ❄️☀️🌳
As part of a research grant funded by Actions concertées of FRQ and MELCCFP.
- Modelling the health burden of summer and winter conditions in Quebec
- Projecting the associated health costs under various climate change scenarios
- Analyzing the cost and benefits of different adaptation measures
Medications and heat-related mortality using machine learning (2024) 💊
As part as of a research internship at UBC and BCCDC, funded by MES and Health Canada.
- Analyzing medications increasing heat-related mortality during the 2021 heat dome
- Using case-crossover and case-only design with linked health data
Related publications : Paper #14
Health and economic impacts of extreme heat (2021-2025) 🌇
As part of my Ph. D. at INRS and my research internship at INSPQ, funded by Ouranos, NSERC, CIHR and INSPQ.
- Modelling the heat-related health impacts using machine and deep learning models
- Estimating the heat burden and associated health costs with projected climate change
- Analyzing vulnerability factors to extreme heat such as schizophrenia
An example of results for health costs in Quebec :
Related publications : Papers #5–#7, #10, #12, #13, #15, Reports #1-#2
Climate-related risks in insurance contexts (2019-2022) ⛈🏠
As part of my research scientist position at The Co-operators in collaboration with UQÀM.
- Modelling and simulating river and coastal flood risk at the Canadian level
- Projection of climate change impacts for convective storms, hurricane and flooding
- Tools for spatial concentration and natural disaster risk management
An example of results for summer flooding across Canada :
Related publications : Papers #8–#9, #11
Functional regression models in ecohydrology (2016-2019) 🏞
As part of my M. Sc. in statistical hydrology at INRS, funded by NSERC.
- Statistical modelling of ecohydrological variables (streamflow, temperature, etc.)
- Functional data analysis of the physico-thermal fish habitat
- Team leader for river data sampling during two summers
An example of results for simulated stream temperature in the US :
Related publications : Papers #1–#4, Master thesis