Dr Martin Gagnon
Director Research and Enterprise and Governance Board Member
Dr Martin Gagnon is the Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Otago, taking up the role in July 2018. Prior to this Dr Gagnon was working as Chief Operating Officer of Exactis Innovation, a pan-Canadian clinical and molecular patient registry. Dr Gagnon has a BSc in Biochemistry from the Université de Sherbrooke as well as a PhD in Pharmacology & Therapeutics from McGill University, Montréal. He has also served as Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, for the University of Otago, in 2025.
Current Projects
The Dodd-Walls Centre research focus is photonics, the generation, transmission, and manipulation of light, and the study of matter and energy at the quantum level.