Short bio – Sylvain Baillet graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in Applied Physics (France) and obtained his PhD summa cum laude in Physics from University of Paris-Saclay. He has an international career profile, having held positions in France, the USA and Canada. He was a Lavoisier Research Associate at the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) as a tenured Principal Investigator in 2000. He became the head of the Brain Imaging group at the Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging CNRS Laboratory in 2005, at La Salpêtrière University-Hospital in Paris. In 2008, he took a position as Associate Professor of Neurology & Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and became the founding Scientific Director of the MEG Program at Froedtert Hospital, in Milwaukee (USA). He joined McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute in 2011, where he has been the founding Director of the MEG Unit. He was Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre at the MNI (2013-17), one of the largest brain imaging research units worldwide.

Sylvain is the Tier-1 Canada Research Chair of Neural Dynamics of Brain Systems and has been Associate Dean of Research of McGill’s Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences since 2019. He is also a founding member of the Standing Committee on Science of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and was elected Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in September 2023.