Alexandre Beaudoin is the recipient of a scholarship from the One Urban Health Chair and a Mitacs Accelerate-entrepreneur scholarship for his PhD. His research focuses on adapting cities to climate change using a socio-ecological approach. At the heart of his interests are the creation of urban ecological corridors and green infrastructures and their impacts on human health in the context of climate change.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) and a master’s degree in environment and sustainable development with a focus on biodiversity management from the Université de Montréal (UdeM). Upon graduation, he was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, as well as the UdeM Environment Scholarship. He worked as a naturalist for over 10 years and has always prioritized passing on knowledge to the next generation. A serial entrepreneur in social economy, he founded the Miel Montréal cooperative (urban beekeeping) in 2012, now known as Polliflora. He continued his studies while working as a biodiversity advisor for UdeM’s Sustainable Development Unit from 2012 to the present.
In 2019, he graduated with a second master’s degree in socio-ecology from the Environmental Economics Laboratory at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), where he specializes in the governance of urban ecological corridors. In 2021, he completed a post-graduate microprogram in Strategic Environmental Consulting at UdeS. At the same time, he founded Éco-pivot, an urban biodiversity consulting firm whose mission is to reconnect nature in cities. As the instigator of UdeM’s Projets éphémères, located near the MIL campus, and the Darlington Ecological Corridor, he has gained expertise in the ecological transformation of cities, particularly through action research.
To document all these initiatives, he is currently working on his PhD in action research through the interdisciplinary PhD program in urban planning and landscape architecture at UdeM, in collaboration with the UdeM Landscape Chair and the INRS Climate Emergency Action Chair, with Pr Sylvain Paquette and Pr Sophie van Neste. In 2024, he participated in the Quebec delegation of the Tournée des chercheurs, selected by the Consulate General of France in Quebec. Alexandre is also a course lecturer in Biodiversity Management in the Environment and Sustainable Development graduate program.
