Roles and responsibilities
Team Lead for Dimensional Metrology
Technical Manager, NRC Gauge Block Interferometer
Calibration of end standards for dissemination of the SI metre to measurement laboratories and Canadian industry.
Development of instrumentation for high-accuracy measurements of lengths and angles traceable to the SI definitions of the metre and radian.
Education
B.A.Sc. (Hons.) Engineering Science (Physics), University of Toronto, 2005
Ph.D. Physics, MIT, 2011
Previous work experience
International experience and/or work
April 2013 - June 2016: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany)
- Development of trapped-ion frequency optical frequency standards
April 2011 - March 2013: Aarhus Universitet (Denmark)
- Research into optical confinement of ions trapped in a Fabry-Pérot resonator
Ian Leroux
Associate Research Officer
Metrology
1200 Montreal Road
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6
Preferred language: English
Other(s): German, French
Email: Ian.Leroux@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Expertise
Sciences, Metrology, Length