Luc is currently professor and program leader of forest operations at Laval University, in Quebec City, Canada. He is Director of the research consortium FOR@C (Forest to Customer, a centre of engineering and management expertise for the advancement of the forest products industry through developing new technologies and business models). His main research area is concerned with wood procurement systems analysis. For the last 20 years, he has worked extensively with logging entrepreneurs and forest industry in the United States, Canada, France and Sweden to document their business networks and to study the factors affecting their performance. He is also active in the area of wood transportation and forest road network analysis.