François Morency is a professor at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) since 2004. After a PhD degree in mechanical engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1999, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill university on the development of aircraft icing simulation tools based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Professor Morency has interests in aircraft icing, turbulence modeling, CFD, numerical methods and high-performance computing. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute and the CFD Society of Canada.