Audrey Laventure is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Université de Montréal and is the Canada Research Chair in Functional Polymer Materials. Her expertise lies at the intersection of physical chemistry and advanced materials characterization. She did her postdoc as a NSERC Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary and her Ph.D. as a NSERC Vanier Fellow at the Université de Montréal, whose excellence was recognized by the Governor General's Gold Medal, as well as by the Best Thesis Award of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.  Audrey is also regularly involved in scientific outreach and mentoring activities. She was selected to be part of the Les chercheuses en BD program (2023). Audrey is also interested in public and scientific policies: after completing a three-year term as a member of the Youth Council of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada (2020-2023), she was selected as a delegate in the Science Meets Parliament program (2023).