Rate My Professor Alan Evans

Alan Charles Evans is a Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University. He has held this position since 2009 and serves as a researcher in the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Evans holds the Victor Dahdaleh Chair in Neurosciences and is co-director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health. He is also principal investigator of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform and scientific director of McGill’s Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives project. Evans obtained a B.Sc. in Physics from Liverpool University in 1974, an M.Sc. in Medical Physics from Surrey University in 1975, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Biophysics at Leeds University in 1979. He joined McGill University in 1984 and became a full professor in 1995.

Evans’ research focuses on neuroimaging and neuroinformatics, including cognitive neuroimaging, neuroanatomical variability, and image-processing methodologies for PET and MRI. He pioneered multi-modal 3D brain imaging techniques and contributed to the development of brain-mapping methods. He was a co-founder of the International Consortium for Brain Mapping and one of the founders of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Evans has received numerous honors, including the Order of Canada, fellowship in the Royal Society, the Killam Prize in 2020, the Prix du Québec in 2016, and recognition as a Highly Cited Scientist. He has published over 550 peer-reviewed papers and leads or participates in major international projects such as the Big Brain project and studies on pediatric brain development and Alzheimer’s disease.