Alan Evans is a Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry. At The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) since 1984, his work includes multi-modal brain imaging and large-scale neuroinformatics. He has 739 peer-reviewed papers (Google Scholar h-index =211; 193,900 citations). He ranks #49 in the world’s top 100 scientists in Medical Sciences. As Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre during the 1990’s, he co-founded the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) and was OHBM Chair in 2017.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Evans has received many awards, including: Margolese Human Brain Disorders Prize, Wilder Penfield Prix du Québec, Senate of Canada 150 Medal, Heinz Lehmann Prize for Neuropsychopharmacology, OHBM Glass Brain Award, Izaak Walton Killam Prize and RSC McLaughlin Medal.
He is Scientific Director of McGill’s 'Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives' (HBHL) project and the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP). CONP employs a multi-modal databasing system (LORIS) and a grid-processing portal (CBRAIN), both developed in Evans' MCIN lab. These platforms support international brain networks, notably the Global Brain Consortium. In 2023, he founded Lasso Informatics, a brain database management company.
Professional position
- Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
- Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Subject groups
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Computer Sciences
Systems, including networking, Artificial intelligence, machine learning, vision, Databases
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Astronomy and Physics
Biophysics, Crystallography
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Engineering and Materials Science
Computer engineering (including software)
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Multicellular Organisms
Physiology incl biophysics of cells (non-clinical), Physiology and medicine (non-clinical)
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Health and Human Sciences
Clinical neuroscience, Medical instrumentation
