Partners
Our collaborations take the form of co-authorship, student co-supervision, joint projects and research networks.
Funding bodies and industrial partners
Granting agencies and companies that fund our projects or take part in them directly.
Academic partners
Universities and research centres with whom we publish, co-supervise students or run joint projects.
Canada
Polytechnique Montréal
Prof. Roland P. Malhamé
Co-applicant on the 2023-2028 research program and thesis co-supervision; joint work on stochastic control and mean-field games.
Hydro-Québec — LTE / IREQ
Michaël Fournier · Fatima Amara · Juan C. Oviedo-Cepeda
Partner of the Hydro-Québec Research Chair; the most frequent external affiliation in our publications.
Université Laval
Teaching leadership chair on the optimization and management of greenhouse energy and climate in Quebec, central to our greenhouse program.
INRS — Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications
Prof. François Allard
INRS-UQTR joint research unit on materials and technologies for the energy transition, which Professor Allard co-directs — his office is at the Hydrogen Research Institute. His work covers electrode materials for solid-state batteries, low-emission electrometallurgy and green hydrogen.
Réseau ACET — Université de Victoria
Accelerating Community Energy Transformation, with Royal Roads, UBC and Yukon University: the backbone of our remote-communities program.
Université de Sherbrooke
Co-authorship in electrical and computer engineering.
École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal
Prof. Daniel R. Rousse
t3e industrial research group — energy technologies and energy efficiency.
Europe
FEMTO-ST — Université de Franche-Comté
Prof. Daniel Hissel
Sustained collaboration on fuel cells: about ten joint publications.
Hochschule München (HM) University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Christoph M. Hackl
Institute for Sustainable Energy Systems (ISES) and Laboratory for Mechatronic and Renewable Energy Systems (LMRES), in the department of electrical engineering and information technology.
Latin America
Universidad Industrial de Santander — GISEL
Prof. César Antonio Duarte Gualdrón · Prof. Juan Manuel Rey · Prof. Iván David Serna Suárez
Grupo de Investigación en Sistemas de Energía Eléctrica (GISEL), in the school of electrical, electronic and telecommunications engineering — electricity markets, power quality, grid operation and the energy transition. Sustained co-authorship and reciprocal student exchange.
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Smart Energy Laboratory, Cartagena: co-authorship and student exchange.
Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
Co-authorship in energy systems.
Africa
Université de Lomé — École Polytechnique
Prof. Adekunlé Akim Salami · Prof. Ayité Sénah Akoda Ajavon
Low-cost smart grids and fault characterization in West African transmission networks; joint publications since 2024.
Université Cheikh Anta Diop — École Supérieure Polytechnique
Prof. Cheikh Mouhamed Fadel Kébé
Renewable energy and energy efficiency in West Africa, linked to the Solar Systems Test Centre (CT2S).
Université de Douala — ENSET
Prof. Olivier Thierry Sosso Mayi
Electrical engineering department; Professor Sosso Mayi holds a PhD from UQTR.
Join the laboratory
LIREI is always looking for motivated graduate students interested in intelligent energy management.