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Julie Bolduc-Duval
Team Chair and Contact Person, NAEC team - Canada
Discover the Universe
julieatdiscovertheuniverse.ca
Julie Bolduc-Duval is the director of the Canadian astronomy training program Discover the Universe (also offered in French: À la découverte de l’Univers). Through online workshops and webinars, she helps thousands of educators across Canada and beyond.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Chair and Contact Person, NAEC team - Canada
Discover the Universe
julieatdiscovertheuniverse.ca
Julie Bolduc-Duval is the director of the Canadian astronomy training program Discover the Universe (also offered in French: À la découverte de l’Univers). Through online workshops and webinars, she helps thousands of educators across Canada and beyond.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Prof Pierre Chastenay
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal
Pierre Chastenay holds a master’s degree in astrophysics from Université Laval in Québec City and a doctorate in science education from Université de Montréal. He is now a professor of science education at Université du Québec à Montréal, where his main research interests are science and astronomy education, and elementary teacher training. Previously, he was Director of Education at the Planétarium de Montréal for 25 years. He was the host of the science popularization programs “Les électrons libres” and “Le code Chastenay”, both of which have been broadcast between 2008 and 2017. He won the Prix Raymond-Charrette in 2014, presented by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française, for the quality of his media productions. In 2017, he was awarded the Qilak Award from the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Sanford-Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for Science, recognizing his long and distinguished record of outstanding contributions to communicating astronomy and science to Canadians. Pierre Chastenay is also the author of three books on astronomy for young people, which have sold more than 22,000 copies in Québec and other French-speaking countries.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Université du Québec à Montréal
Pierre Chastenay holds a master’s degree in astrophysics from Université Laval in Québec City and a doctorate in science education from Université de Montréal. He is now a professor of science education at Université du Québec à Montréal, where his main research interests are science and astronomy education, and elementary teacher training. Previously, he was Director of Education at the Planétarium de Montréal for 25 years. He was the host of the science popularization programs “Les électrons libres” and “Le code Chastenay”, both of which have been broadcast between 2008 and 2017. He won the Prix Raymond-Charrette in 2014, presented by the Conseil supérieur de la langue française, for the quality of his media productions. In 2017, he was awarded the Qilak Award from the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Sanford-Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for Science, recognizing his long and distinguished record of outstanding contributions to communicating astronomy and science to Canadians. Pierre Chastenay is also the author of three books on astronomy for young people, which have sold more than 22,000 copies in Québec and other French-speaking countries.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Dr Marie-Eve Naud
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Institute for research on exoplanets, Université de Montréal
Marie-Eve is fascinated with the universe. She likes in particular exoplanets and the possibility of the life elsewhere in the universe. During her PhD (Université de Montréal, 2016), she worked on detecting and characterizing planetary-mass companions
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Institute for research on exoplanets, Université de Montréal
Marie-Eve is fascinated with the universe. She likes in particular exoplanets and the possibility of the life elsewhere in the universe. During her PhD (Université de Montréal, 2016), she worked on detecting and characterizing planetary-mass companions
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Prof John Percy
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
John R. Percy (BSc Math and Physics 1962, MA Astronomy 1963, PhD Astronomy 1968, all University of Toronto) is a very active Professor Emeritus, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Science Education, at the University of Toronto.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
John R. Percy (BSc Math and Physics 1962, MA Astronomy 1963, PhD Astronomy 1968, all University of Toronto) is a very active Professor Emeritus, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Science Education, at the University of Toronto.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Dr Christa Van Laerhoven
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Yukon Astronomical Society
Christa is a planetary scientist currently living in the Yukon. She grew up in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, went to the University of British Columbia for a B.Sc. in physics and astronomy, then to the University of Arizona for a Ph.D. in planetary sciences. After working as a planetary astronomer for several years she returned to the University of British Columbia for a B.Ed. specialising in teaching high school mathematics and physics.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Member, NAEC team - Canada
Yukon Astronomical Society
Christa is a planetary scientist currently living in the Yukon. She grew up in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, went to the University of British Columbia for a B.Sc. in physics and astronomy, then to the University of Arizona for a Ph.D. in planetary sciences. After working as a planetary astronomer for several years she returned to the University of British Columbia for a B.Ed. specialising in teaching high school mathematics and physics.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Contact
To get in touch with the NAEC team for Canada please contact:
Julie Bolduc-Duval via julieatdiscovertheuniverse.ca
Astronomy Education in Canada
For more information on Astronomy Education in Canada, see the Astronomy Education in Canada document (PDF file 210.85 kB Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) icons) prepared by our NAEC team
The Office of Astronomy for Education is hosted by the Haus der Astronomie on the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The Office of Astronomy for Education is an office of the International Astronomical Union, with substantial funding from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.
