Audrey Laventure is an assistant 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. Recognized for her teaching excellence (André Beauchamp Prize), she has always shown an interest in new teaching and learning methods. Audrey is also regularly involved in scientific popularization and mentoring activities. She was the first Faculty of Science Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary - an award highlighting her involvement in the world of technology transfer, both at the doctoral level (Technopreneur program of the Poly-UdeM Entrepreneurship Center) and during her PDF (Innovate Calgary's Energy Innovator program).