Simon Vallières
Simon
Vallières
Research Associate and Radiation Safety Officer at the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre
Simon Vallières is a Research Associate at the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) of INRS in Varennes near Montréal, Canada. His expertise is at the junction of radiation physics and high-intensity laser-matter interactions. He obtained a BEng in Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montreal (2014) and then pursued an MSc in Medical Physics at McGill University (2016). He completed a dual PhD program at INRS and Université de Bordeaux in France (2020), during which he worked on laser-based ion acceleration. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and ALLS, working to reach record laser intensities using tight focusing for probing events in quantum electrodynamics. He is now leading most experimental campaigns using the 750 TW laser at ALLS, both on laser wakefield acceleration and ion acceleration, as part of the LaserNetUS high-power laser network. Simon is also a radiation safety professional accredited by the Canadian Radiation Protection Association (CRPA) and serves as RSO at INRS.
LaserNetUS Affiliations
- Network Facilities Committee
Publications:
- High Dose-Rate MeV Electron Beams from a Tightly-Focused Femtosecond IR Laser in Ambient Air S. Vallières et al., Laser and Photonics Reviews, 18, 2300078 (2024).
- Tight-Focusing Parabolic Reflector Schemes for Petawatt Lasers S. Vallières et al., Optics Express, 31, 19319 (2023).
- Enhanced Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration Using Nanowire Targets S. Vallières et al., Scientific Reports, 11, 2226 (2021).
- Thomson Parabola and Time-of-Flight Detector Cross-Calibration Methodology on the ALLS 100 TW Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration Beamline S. Vallières et al., Review of Scientific Instruments, 91,103303 (2020).