[3] In her research, she has used geometric flows to model the interface dynamics of reaction–diffusion systems.

[3] Other topics in her research include pattern formation, grain boundaries, and vortices in superfluids.

She did her undergraduate studies at the Université de Montréal, graduating in 1983,[4] and earned her PhD in 1988 from New York University under the supervision of Robert V.

[5] After short-term positions at Brown University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Carnegie Mellon University, she moved to McMaster in 1992.

[4] In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed her in their inaugural class of fellows.