Alan Evans, PhD, was among the 85 new Fellows of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, announced May 14, 2024. Candidates were nominated for their substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge.
Prof. Evans is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and a researcher in the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital). He holds the Victor Dahdaleh Chair in Neurosciences and is the Co-Director of the Helmholtz International BigBrain Analytics & Learning Laboratory (HIBALL) and the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health.
He is recognized worldwide for the development and application of advanced mathematical and computational techniques to study the brain’s structure and function using neuroimaging, with a particular focus on neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative disorders.
Prof. Evans is one of the pioneers of brain mapping, a sub-category of brain imaging where scientists use large-scale computational approaches to map the brain within a three-dimensional coordinate system. He has had a long and meaningful career in the development and application of multimodal brain mapping. Prof. Evans has also been deeply involved with the establishment of some of the major organizations in the brain mapping field, such as the International Consortium for Brain Mapping and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), the largest single meeting of brain mappers in the world.
Prof. Evans was named a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 and was the recipient of the Society’s McLaughlin Medal in 2021 for important research of sustained excellence in medical science. He won the OHBM Glass Brain Award in 2019 and the Killam Memorial Prize in 2020, both for lifetime achievement. He was nominated for this most recent recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society by his career-long collaborators and colleagues, Brenda Milner, PhD, and Michael Petrides, PhD.
“This nomination means a great deal to me since it’s not only from my home country but also from my academic peers” he says.
Congratulations, Prof. Evans, for this well-deserved recognition and for your deep and career-long commitment to the advancement and accessibility of science.
