Momen, Gelareh

Dr. Momen is an associate professor at UQAC and the director of Anti-Icing Materials International Laboratory (AMIL) laboratory. AMIL is the only lab in the world accredited to certify de-icing and anti-icing fluids used to protect airplanes prior to take-off. She is also heading the LaRGIS (Laboratory of icephobic material and surface engineering) laboratory at UQAC. LaRGIS is to identify issues related to atmospheric icing and surface wettability in order to develop realistic anti-icing methods based on a variety of knowledge that meet the needs of industries.

She is the author or co-author of more than 50 scientific publications, having more than 1200 citations. She is the member of several International Working Group including  “Ice Adhesion Working Group” and the international working group of the Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) to report on “Coatings for protecting overhead power network equipment in winter conditions”. Before joining UQAC as a professor, she worked at the Global Completion Centre (GCC) of Bombardier Aerospace and was responsible for research on the interior coatings of aircraft where she established and equipped the first interior experimental laboratory at the GCC.