David Saint-Jacques
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| CSA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Status | Active |
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January 6, 1970 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
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Other occupation
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Astrophysicist/Physician |
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University of Cambridge École Polytechnique de Montréal Université Laval |
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| Selection | 2009 CSA Group |
David Saint-Jacques (born January 6, 1970 in Saint-Lambert, Quebec) is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He was also an engineer, an astrophysicist, and a physician prior to joining the CSA. He was selected to join the CSA in the 2009 CSA selection along with Jeremy Hansen.
Saint-Jacques was born in Quebec City and raised in the Montreal suburb of Saint-Lambert, Quebec. Saint-Jacques is married and has two children. He is a lifelong mountaineer, hiker, cyclist, skier and passionate sailor. He also holds a commercial pilot license. He is fluent in French and English, and has a basic understanding of Russian, Spanish and Japanese.
His broad scientific background includes engineering, astrophysics and medical training, with international experience in France and Hungary for engineering study and Lebanon and Guatemala for medical study. Saint-Jacques is affiliated with the Collège des médecins du Québec, College of Family Physicians of Canada, Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, International Society for Optical Engineering, and the Cambridge Philosophical Society as a Life Fellow. Saint-Jacques began his career in 1993 as a biomedical engineer at the Quebec firm Electromed with secondment to Lariboisière Hospital, working on the design of radiological equipment for angiography and image analysis algorithms of cineangiography.
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