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Sylvain Baillet serves as Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science at McGill University, and Professor of Neuroscience at Université de Montréal. He is Director of the Centre de recherche at CHUM and Director of Research & Innovation at CHUM, working primarily through the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital (The Neuro), a leading bilingual academic healthcare institution and McGill research/teaching institute.
Dr. Baillet graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in Applied Physics and earned his PhD summa cum laude in Physics from University of Paris (Paris-XI). His distinguished international career includes positions as Research Associate at the University of Southern California, tenured Principal Investigator at CNRS in France (2000), Head of the Brain Imaging group at La Salpetriere University Hospital (2005), and Associate Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin (2008) before joining McGill University in 2011.
As a global leader in brain imaging and multimodal electrophysiology, Dr. Baillet's research focuses on understanding the nature and macroscopic mechanisms of large-scale, network brain activity across time scales from milliseconds to the lifespan. His lab takes a multi-disciplinary approach blending imaging, multi-scale electrophysiology, cognitive and clinical neuropsychology, biophysics, computational models and data science. Rather than specializing in specific brain functions, his work seeks common denominators across neurological phenomena with particular expertise in magnetoencephalography (MEG) for time-resolved brain imaging.
His recent publications demonstrate a strong trajectory toward applying advanced neuroimaging techniques to understand Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, psychosis, and chronic pain, while maintaining significant contributions to open science infrastructure. His work shows increasing integration of genetics with neurophysiology, attention to sustainability in neuroimaging, and development of predictive models for neurological conditions.
Dr. Baillet's scientific recognition includes:
- Tier-1 Canada Research Chair of Neural Dynamics of Brain Systems (2018)
- French Academy of Sciences award for outstanding publication in Biology
- Election to the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada (2025)
- Open Science Leadership Award from the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
With over 11,700 citations and 4 articles in the Top 1% of most-cited publications in Neuroscience, Dr. Baillet has trained 130 students (74 graduates) and 13 post-doctoral fellows from diverse backgrounds, with 20 trainees securing faculty positions worldwide. His research is supported by a substantial funding portfolio exceeding $36 million from agencies including NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, CFI, Compute Canada, Brain Canada, FRQS, FRQNT, NIH, and private donors, currently managing 14 active grants with 8 as PI or co-PI.
Dr. Baillet founded the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (Canada's largest), recruiting 6 PI leaders and 9 highly qualified personnel while raising $6.4 million in infrastructure grants. His lab hosts the Brainstorm software integration (27,600 user accounts), with training workshops attended by over 2,000 students/faculty worldwide. He co-founded the Open MEG Archives (OMEGA), now with Release 3 containing over 150 hours of MEG recordings from 644 participants, demonstrating his commitment to open science and collaborative neuroscience.
