Alan Evans (neuroscientist)

Professor Alan Evans FRS FRSC FCAHS
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Born	Alan Charles Evans 1952 (age 71–72) Wales

Alan Charles Evans is a Welsh-born Canadian neuroscientist who is a James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering, and holds the Victor Dahdaleh Chair in Neurosciences^[1] at McGill University.^[2] He is also a researcher at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute, Co-Director of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health,^[3] Director of the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience,^[4] Scientific Director of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform,^[5][6] Scientific Director of McGill's Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives program ^[7] and Principal Investigator of CBRAIN,^[8] an initiative aiming to integrate Canadian neuroscience data with the Compute Canada computing network.^[9] He is recognized for his research on brain mapping, and was a co-founder of both the International Consortium for Brain Mapping and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. He was OHBM Chair in 2017-18.

In 2014, he was awarded the Prix d’Innovation et d’Excellence Dr Jean-A.-Vézina ^[10] for Québec radiology and the University of British Columbia's Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize.^[11][12] In the same year, he was recognized as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in the category "Neuroscience and Behavior", a ranking he has maintained every year since then.^[13] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015.^[14] In 2016, he received the Wilder Penfield Prix du Québec and was ranked #6 in a list of 10 most influential neuroscientists of the modern era by Science magazine.^[15] In 2017, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and awarded the Senate of Canada 150 Medal.^[16][17] In 2018, he received the Heinz Lehmann Award for Outstanding Contributions to Neuropsychopharmacology ^[18] and the Club de Recherches Cliniques du Québec Mentorship Award. In 2019, he received the Glass Brain Award ^[19] from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping for lifetime achievement in neuroimaging. In 2020, he received the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize,^[20] awarded to Canadian scholars who have made a substantial and distinguished contribution, over a significant period, to scholarly research. In 2021, he received the McLaughlin Medal^[21] from the Royal Society of Canada,^[22] awarded for important research of sustained excellence in medical science. In 2023, he was admitted to the Cuban Academy of Sciences, in recognition of over 30 years working with Cuban neuroscientists, most notably Prof. Pedro Valdes-Sosa. They jointly direct the Global Brain Consortium,^[23] a network of clinical neuroscience researchers conducting projects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries around the world. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2024.^[24]