{"id":8562,"date":"2026-07-09T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=8562"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:59:58","slug":"sophie-chagnon-lessard","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/people\/sophie-chagnon-lessard\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Chagnon-Lessard"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mechanopathology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiscale and inter-organ mechanical coupling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Photonics-enabled methods for reconstructing spatially resolved mechanical state fields<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mesoscale mechanics of aerospace materials and structures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Ottawa, where I specialized in biophysics, an MSc in Physics at the University of Guelph with a focus on nuclear physics, and a BSc in Physics at Universit\u00e9 Laval. Following my doctoral studies, I worked in the medical and photonics industries as a scientist and research manager, leading multidisciplinary technology development in photonic-enabled methods for mechanical characterization. This work included the development of a commercial Bio-Brillouin microscope in collaboration with international partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My current research integrates photonics and mechanics to investigate how mechanical states emerge, evolve, and interact across biological systems and engineered materials. As a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, I study the mechanical behavior of metallic glasses with high resolution spectroscopy. At ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University, my research interests center on developing new approaches to reconstruct mechanical organization and understand how coupled physical landscapes evolve across scales to shape biological function, dysfunction, and mechanopathology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":8564,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Sophie","cu_people_last_name":"Chagnon-Lessard","cu_people_initials":"SC","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[36],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-8562","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-professor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"SophieChagnonLessard@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8567,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8562\/revisions\/8567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}