Jocelyn Bouchard

Jocelyn Bouchard began his career at the Niobec mine in 2005, before joining Xstrata Process Support in 2007 and GENIVAR in 2010. A professor at Université Laval since 2012, he held the Professorial Leadership Chair in Mineralurgical Engineering – Agnico Eagle Mines and ArcelorMittal Mines until 2017. His field of expertise includes modelling and simulation of phenomenology, as well as the control and optimization of mineralurgical and pharmaceutical processes. He is currently director of the E4m Centre, the research centre for the geology and engineering of mineral resources.

Mr. Bouchard has also been appointed Visiting Scholar in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom in 2019-2020. In 2014, the Canadian Mineral Processing Society presented him with the Bill Moore Award, which honours the outstanding contribution of a mineral processing professional under the age of 35.