CNDAI Members
Paul Albert, PhD
Professor, Dept. Medicine, OHRI, Depression, post-stroke depression, mechanisms of antidepressants, epigenetics, chronic stress
Jean-Claude Béïque, PhD
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine - Synaptic function and plasticity, dendritic integration, mood-related networks, stroke recovery, optogenetics
Vincent Bergeron, PhD
Associate Professor, Philosophy, conceptual and methodological foundations of cognitive science; neurophilosophy, cognitive and brain architecture, animal and human cognition
Yves Bourgault, PhD
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics - Numerical methods, bi-domain methods, cardiac and neural excitability, computational fluid dynamics
Tuan Bui, PhD
Associate Professor, Biology - Spinal cord and movement control in zebrafish and mice, computational neuroscience
Jennifer A. Chandler
Professor, Common Law, Canada Research Chair in the Law and Ethics of Brain Technologies
Sylvain Chartier, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Artificial neural networks, cognition and perception, nonlinear time series analysis, chaos in networks
Simon Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, functional dynamics of neural networks within the motor cortex, motor learning, autism, stroke recovery
Antonio Colavita, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Maintenance of neuronal morphology, axon guidance and neuronal migration, nerve cord morphogenesis, C. elegans
Stefanie Czischek, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physics, Neural network quantum states, artificial and spiking neural network simulations of quantum many-body systems, neuromorphic computing
Corrie DaCosta, PhD
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, control and engineering of ligand-gated ion channels
Stuart Fogel, PhD
Professor, School of Psychology, function of sleep for learning and memory, cognitive neuroscience
Maia Fraser, PhD
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics & School of EE and Computer Science, Machine learning algorithms, learning in neuroscience, computational geometry, topological data analysis
Michael Jonz, PhD
Professor, Biology, structure and function of sensory systems in vertebrates, chemoreception, respiration and hypoxia, comparative physiology
Béla Joos, PhD
Professor, Physics, computational neuroscience, excitability in trauma, membrane biophysics, soft matter
Diane Lagace, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Neurogenesis in healthy and pathological brains, Alzheimer’s, behavioural studies, stroke recovery
Jérémie Lefebvre, PhD
Associate Professor, Biology and Physics, Computational and theoretical neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics, brain rhythms, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis
John Lewis, PhD
Professor, Biology, neuroethology, computational neuroscience, sensory systems, weakly electric fish, social communication, neural pacemakers
André Longtin, PhD
Professor, Physics & Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Computational and theoretical neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics, stochastic dynamics, nonlinear time series, neuro-AI, neurophysics, thermal neuroscience, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, model fitting
Leonard Maler, PhD
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Systems and computational neuroscience, memory, sensory processing, feedback dynamics, social communication, weakly electric fish, mice
Yongyi Mao, PhD (Eng.), MD
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Information theory, machine learning, applications in computer vision, natural language processing, knowledge bases, communications, biology and medicine
Catherine E. Morris, PhD
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Neurobiology, ion channels, mechanoreceptors, neural response to injury, neuron and muscle excitability
Richard Naud, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular and molecular medicine and Physics, Computational and theoretical neuroscience, neuro-AI and machine learning in neuroscience, neural dynamics, synaptic plasticity, credit assignment
Georg Northoff, MD, PhD
Royal Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Psychiatry, neuroscience, neurophilosophy, cognitive models, multimodal imaging, biomarkers for depression and schizophrenia
Theodore Perkins, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology & Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Senior Scientist, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Bioinformatics and machine learning applied to stem cells, cancer and neuroscience, computational biology, biomedical imaging
Adam Sachs, MD
Neurosurgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Director of Neuromodulation and Functional Neurosurgery, deep brain stimulation, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, brain-computer interface
Armen Saghatelyan, PhD
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurogenesis, neurodevelopment, olfaction
Tanya Schmah, PhD
Associate professor, Mathematics and Statistics, statistical machine learning, medical image registration, geometric mechanics, modeling epistemic variability
Andrew J. Seely, MD, PhD
Professor, Director of Thoracic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Cellular and Molecular Mecidine, Physiological time series analysis and data science for therapeutics, complexity and entropy of physiological variability, autonomous nervous system control, multiple organ failure
Greg Silasi, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Models of stroke recovery, brain stimulation and rehabilitation after adult and neonatal stroke, micro-infarcts
Heidi Sveistrup, PhD
Professor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, uOttawa and Bruyère Research Institute, motor learning, posture and balance control across the age span, concussion
Jean-Philippe Thivierge, PhD
Professor, School of Psychology, synaptic models of perception, learning, memory, and decision making, large-scale simulations, multi-electrode arrays, multi-electrode recordings, simulations of transcranial stimulation, reservoir computing
Katalin Toth, PhD
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, synaptic transmission, plasticity, hippocampus, dendritic and somatic neural computations, voltage dye microscopy
Sara Tremblay, PhD
Assistant Professor, Royal Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Neuropsychology, neuromodulation (e.g. TMS) for concussion and mental health disorders, neuroimaging