Martin Laflamme - Inventor

Role at the Canadian Space Agency

• Employed at the CSA since 2000.
• Engineer, Microwave and Communications Group, Space Utilization Development Directorate.

Academic background

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Université de Sherbrooke (1999).

Expertise

• Microwave modules, circuits and components, particularly gallium arsenide and gallium nitride monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs).

CSA contribution

• Is currently the support engineer for payload electronics on the Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) project.
• As part of the Microwave and Communications Group, helped design a number of monolithic microwave integrated circuits for several space applications where commercial availability was limited.
• Provided support for a number of programs and projects, including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NEOSSat, QuickSat and the Polar Communication & Weather Satellite (PCW).
• Served as scientific authority for several technology development studies.

Invention(s)

• Gallium Arsenide and Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits