Dr. Suzanne Giasson, is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montreal. Her research focuses on the knowledge of fundamental basis that describe surface phenomena, which are essential to develop processes or materials using surface modification approaches. Understanding and utilizing the special properties of polymer molecules at interfaces constitutes one of her major goals. The approach consists to identify, quantify and correlate surface forces and dynamic forces to the structure, properties and functions of interfacial biomolecules and/or in thin complex fluid films. She is actually studying the relation between the specific properties of polymer-coated materials and their interactions at biomaterial surfaces in a biological environment. She holds a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Laval University in Québec, Canada, and received her Ph.D. from the Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris, France and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.