Dr. Amir Shmuel is a Professor at McGill University’s Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering. He is the Director of the Brain Imaging Signals Lab and a core faculty member of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Dr. Shmuel served as the chair of the organizing committee and chair of the sixth conference of the International Society for Brain Connectivity in 2018. He is the PI of an $18.7M grant funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation to install the first large-bore 7 Tesla MRI scanner in Quebec. His research program focuses on understanding the mechanisms of functional brain imaging signals and resting-state functional connectivity, cortical lamina resolved neurophysiology and neuroimaging, differentiating MRI images from patients and healthy subjects, and computational modeling of these themes. His lab employs an integrative approach, using a combination of imaging and electrical recording techniques. These include high-resolution functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), optical imaging using intrinsic signals, multi-channel neurophysiological recordings, optogenetics, and tissue processing. Together, these techniques encompass multiple levels of spatial and temporal resolution. The measurements are recorded while presenting different types of sensory stimuli or during spontaneous activity. Dr. Shmuel’s lab emphasizes the development of models in parallel to the acquisition of experimental data, aiming to fit the models to the experimental data. Dr. Shmuel’s research is currently funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the US Department of Defense.