Welcome to our new faculty members in medical physics imaging

The Department of Physics is happy to announce that two new members are going to join our faculty rank respectively in July and September 2014. They form a new team in Medical Physics Imaging at Concordia University.

Dr. Christophe Grova was one of the most experienced candidates for the advertised position in Medical Physics. He is a graduate in biomedical engineering at Université de Technologie de Compiègne and has a PhD from Université de Rennes. His experience as a postdoctoral researcher as well as a research faculty at McGill University (associated with both the Biomedical Engineering and the Neurology and Neurosurgery Department) is very rich. Dr. Grova's expertise lies in the developing and validating of methodologies for multimodal neuroimaging data integration and fusion. Dr. Grova can work with several imaging modalities that include SPECT, PET, MRI/fMRI, EEG and Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy. He is a very well-funded researcher with several important grants from major granting agencies and foundations. His links with industry in applied research are also noted with great interest. Dr. Grova will join our department in July 2014.

Dr. Claudine Gauthier is a recent graduate (PhD, Physiology/Neurology, Université de Montréal) but her research realizations are already impressive. She has produced authoritative publications in excellent journals (NeuroImage, Neurobiology of Aging, Journal of Biomed Imaging, etc.), often as first author, in her field of research, and because of the interest generated, has been a much sought-after invited speaker to many events and institutions in various countries. Now a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, she continues working on health related questions using MRI techniques, a research orientation and philosophy that is completely in sync with Perform Centre's approach. In her plan for prevention research at Concordia, she proposes to explore the metabolic and vascular changes associated with lifestyle choices during midlife. Dr. Claudine Gauthier will start her work at Concordia University in September 2014.