About
Loïc Albert is a Researcher at Université de Montréal specializing in observational astronomy and instrumentation. He holds a PhD from Université de Montréal (2006), focusing on brown dwarfs and infrared instrument design. He spent five years as a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, studying ultracool brown dwarfs and rogue planets. Currently, he is a key scientist for the Canadian-built NIRISS instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), designed to characterize exoplanet spectra through numerical simulations and laboratory noise analysis.
His research bridges instrument development with exoplanet studies, emphasizing spectral analysis using JWST's NIRISS. Ongoing work includes determining brown dwarf temperatures and luminosities via infrared observations. He collaborates with postdoctoral researchers at Université de Montréal and McGill University, advancing exoplanet detection techniques and planetary atmosphere modeling.
