Pierre Bellec

Pierre Bellec, PhD, is the principal investigator of the laboratory for brain simulation and exploration (SIMEXP) and the director of the Functional Unit for Neuroimaging at the Montreal Geriatrics Institute (CRIUGM). His laboratory uses data mining techniques to identify markers of brain disorders across a range of diagnoses. He is an FRQS chercheur boursier (Junior 2), as well as the co-leader (with Dr. Roger Dixon) of the biomarkers team of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (ccna-ccnv.ca). Dr. Bellec is also the scientific director of the Courtois project on neuronal modelling (cneuromod.ca), which uses deep learning models to mimic brain activity and human behaviour across a range of different tasks. Dr. Bellec's laboratory is involved in several open science initiatives, such as brainhack (brainhack.org) and the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (conp.ca). Finally, Dr. Bellec is currently chair of the Educational Committee of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (humanbrainmapping.org).