Etienne Laliberté has been a researcher for the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale and Professor of Ecology at Université de Montréal since 2015. His work focuses on plant-soil interactions and their importance in maintaining plant biodiversity in the ecosystems. Since January 2018, he has been managing the Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory (www.caboscience.org), a Canada-wide research project aimed at developing approaches in hyperspectral remote sensing of plant biodiversity.