Alan Evans is Distingushed James McGill Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at McGill University. He is Scientific Director of McGill’s “Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives initiative and the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform. He is co-Director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, using high-performance computing to integrate imaging, behavior, genetics data in research into neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment. He has 755 publications (Google Scholar h-index=215). In 2014, he received the national Margolese Human Brain Disorders Prize and is a Highly Cited Scientist (210,092 citations ; top 1%) for Neuroscience and Behavior. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and 2017 Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. In 2016, he received the Wilder Penfield Prix du Québec. In 2017, he was awarded the Senate of Canada 150 Medal. In 2018, he was awarded the Heinz Lehmann Prize in Neuropsychopharmacology and the Victor Dahdaleh Chair in Neurosciences. He was awarded the OHBM Glass Brain Award in 2019 and the Izaak Walton Killam Prize in Health Sciences in 2020, both for lifetime achievement. In 2021, he received the Royal Society of Canada McLaughlin Medal for research of sustained excellence. In 2023, he was elected as a Correspondent Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. In 2024, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2025, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Professional position
- Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
- Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, 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
