Alexandre April completed a bachelor's degree in engineering physics, as well as a master's and doctorate in physics (specializing in photonic optics) at Université Laval in Quebec City. His research focused on the spectroscopy and modeling of highly focused ultrashort laser pulses, leading to the publication of several scientific papers. Since 2010, he has been a professor in the physics department at Cégep Garneau, where he teaches the three general education physics courses in Natural Sciences, as well as being involved in the Visual Orthotics Techniques program. In 2013 and 2014, he co-authored 24 physics synthesis problems, which were published in the Physique de René Lafrance book series, published by La Chenelière Éducation. In 2015, he contributed to the development of 10 problem-based approaches (PBAs), available free of charge on the website of the Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique (CCDMD), aimed at college-level science students. In 2016 and 2017, he sat on the review committee for Cégep Garneau's Visual Orthotics Techniques program.
