Professor
Départment of Physics
McGill University
Brigitte Vachon is associated professor at the Physics Department of Mcgill University, Montréal where she held the Canada Research Chair in Particle Physics.
Professor Vachon central research topic is the study of nature elementary constituents and their interactions using the world most powerful particles colliders. In particular, she is an active member of the international collaboration ATLAS who discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
Brigitte Vachon stood out as soon as the doctoral level, receiving the governor general’s academic medal. She also obtained the prestigious postdoctoral Lederman fellowship to work at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher. She received in 2015 the Women of distinction award from the Women’s Y foundation. She has been involved in the promotion of diversity in physics, most notably as the initiator and coordinator of the Canadian Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CCUWiP) held annually in Canada since 2014.