Chair of the 1971 Saint-Jean-Vianney disaster: 50 years of progress in geotechnical knowledge, UQAC-MTQ-SCG-Est
President of Conference:DSIG Workshop on Rock Erosion at Spillways, October 3rd,2018, Kim Pate, Seattle City Light, USA.
Member of the ACFAS 2018 Scientific Committee at UQAC.
Conference leader on the environment, ACFAS 2018 at UQAC.
Responsible for the Admission Examination of Geotechniques of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Quebec since March 2014.
Co-chairof an ISRM conference session, Montreal 2015, from May 10 to 13, 2015 in Montreal.
Member of the Scientific Committee and co-chairof a Québec Mine 2013 conference session, from November 11 to 14, 2013 in Québec City.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the conference “Past and present mining: environmental and societal impacts”, as part of the Jacques Cartier Interviews, on November 26-27, 2013 in Chambéry, France.
Reviewer for journals« Natural Hazard » et « Landscape and Urban Planning », «International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences», CIM, «Geotechnical and Geological Engineering», «Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering», «Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment» et …
Professor at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi