He received his PhD in 2009 from McGill, then was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and at the Niels Bohr Institute. Caron-Huot’s research revolves around the strong force (QCD). His work aims to develop new calculation techniques to describe the interactions between quarks and gluons, and new exact methods to solve a variety of strongly coupled models. In 2017 Caron-Huot was awarded the Gribov Medal.