His research interests include moduli spaces, integrable systems, and Riemann surfaces.
[2][3] After undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, Hurtubise became a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford for 1978–1981,[1] and earned a DPhil from Oxford in 1982, supervised by Nigel Hitchin, with a dissertation concerning links between algebraic geometry and differential geometry.
[4] Following his DPhil, he taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal until 1988, when he moved to McGill.
[5] Hurtubise won the Coxeter–James Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 1993, and was an AMS Centennial Fellow for 1993–1994.
[6] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.