Moment Mentor Memento ep. 4 with Canada Research Chair Blaise Bourdin

Cue Annie Lennox’s song Walking on Broken Glass. The fourth episode of the Moment Mentor Memento podcast features Blaise Bourdin, a world-renowned researcher who’s dedicated his career to studying how glass and other brittle materials break. Think about Blaise the next time you’re looking out the window of a plane at 40,000 feet.

Blaise is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Solid Mechanics and a professor in McMaster University’s Department of Mathematics & Statistics.

While relatively new to Mac (Blaise joined the university in 2021), he was a faculty member at Louisiana State University for 22 years after completing postdoctoral fellowships at New York University, the California Institute of Applied Technology and DTU – Technical University of Denmark.

Blaise sat down in the Lyons New Media podcast studio to talk with journalist in residence Jeff Goodes about his research, a defining moment in his career, an outstanding mentor and a memento that holds special meaning.

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