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Mathieu de Lafontaine is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. He has over a decade of experience in microfabrication, plasma etching, photovoltaics and photonics. He earned his PhD through a joint program between the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and the Université Grenoble Alpes (France), focusing on III-V semiconductor plasma etching, multijunction solar cell fabrication and characterization. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including an Excellence in Graduate Teaching award in 2023, the John Coburn and Harold Winters finalist award, and seven scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Fonds de Recherche du Québec and Grenoble INP. He is regularly invited as a guest speaker at conferences such as SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning and Plasma Etch and Strip in Microtechnology (PESM). He has published over 20 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers.