Mylène Falardeau has been a member of the Board of Directors and the Event Organizing Committee for Canadian Universities for Forensic Science since August 2020.
She is a graduate student of the fourth cohort of the bachelor’s in Chemistry (Criminalistics Profile) from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. She completed her master’s degree in Chemistry at the same university, focusing on degradation analysis of polymers used for 3D printing of firearms.
At the beginning of her master’s degree, she joined the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale de Montréal, as a ballistics student to carry out several research and development projects. In April 2021, she was proudly promoted to firearms examiner.
Throughout her academic studies, she has been involved in numerous research projects in forensic science and continues to integrate scientific research into her professional career. She authored six scientific publications and has given more than ten presentations at scientific conferences in Canada and Europe.