Frédérique Baron

Frédérique Baron holds the roles of Instrumentation Project Manager at the Experimental Astrophysics Laboratory (LAE) of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) and Coordinator of the Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ). With a PhD from Université de Montréal supervised by David Lafrenière and Étienne Artigau, she specializes in researching giant gas planets with wide separations through direct imaging. Her doctoral project focused on detecting exoplanet companions orbiting young stars within very large orbits, revealing their mass and separation distributions, and suggesting a possible formation process resembling brown dwarfs. She studied stars’ weak gravitational bonds in wide-separation binary systems during her Masters, discovering fourteen new systems with late-M or L-type dwarf components, contributing to our understanding of star formation and age estimation.