Dominic Villeneuve

Dominic Villeneuve is a policy scientist focusing particularly on transport and mobility policies and their effects on society, individuals and the territory. His research also focuses on interdisciplinary approaches aimed at sustainable mobility. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and a Joint Honors Bachelor’s Degree of Social Sciences in Public Administration and Political Science from the University of Ottawa.

Since the spring of 2020, he is an assistant professor of Transport and Mobility at the Graduate School of Planning and Regional Development (ÉSAD) of Université Laval. Originally from Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides which is now part of Quebec City, he returned from a 7-year stay in Europe where he was a postdoc coordinator of the mobil.LAB doctoral research group of the Research Chair on Urban Structure and Transport Planning at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He was also a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LaSUR) of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he obtained his PhD in Architecture and Sciences of the City in 2017 under the supervision of Professor Vincent Kaufmann.

His PhD thesis focused on a comparison of car dependence and social exclusion linked to mobility in the regions of Quebec (Canada) and Strasbourg (France). He holds a master’s degree in Public Administration and a Joint Honours Baccalaureate in Social Science Public Administration and Political Science from the University of Ottawa. Having an atypical academic path, Dominic Villeneuve preceded his university career with a professional career as a computer scientist for twelve years at Microsoft where he worked, among other things, to launch Hotmail in French. Before returning to settle in our region, he lived and worked in British Columbia, Ottawa, Toronto, Washington, Lausanne and Munich.