Sébastien Langlois

Sebastien Langlois received his Ph.D. from Université de Sherbrooke, Canada in 2013 and his B. Eng. and M. Eng. in Civil Engineering from McGill University, Canada in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is a registered professional engineer in the province of Québec, Canada. Since 2014, he is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Building Engineering Department at Université de Sherbrooke. His main research interests are the behavior of transmission line towers, the evaluation of conductor oscillations and damages, and the effect of wind on structures. He is the principal investigator for the research partnership with Hydro-Québec and RTE(France) on structural and mechanical aspects of power transmission lines. Prof. Langlois is supervising or has supervised the research work of more than 20 Master and PhD students and is the coauthors of more than 35 scientific publications. He also has two years of experience in a consulting company in the field of transmission line structural design. He is an active member of CIGRÉ TAG 06 Mechanical behaviour of conductors and fittings.