Our faculty
Our faculty members are active professionals with diverse clinical interests and orientations.
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Full-time faculty
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Nicole M. Alberts
- Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Behavioural Health Intervention, Psychology
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Andreas Arvanitogiannis
- Associate Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Animal models of motivation and reward -
Erin Barker
- Full Professor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Program Director, Psychology
Research areas: Lifespan Developmental Psychology; Transition to Adulthood; Well_Being and Mental Health; Stress and Coping -
William Michael Bukowski
- Principal, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
- Professor and Research Chair in Early Adolescent Development , Psychology
Research areas: Peer Relations, Social Development, Origins of Psychopathology, Culture, Economic Inequality, Early Adolescence, Studying Change -
Krista Byers-Heinlein
- Professor, Psychology
- Concordia University Research Chair in Bilingualism and Open Science
Research areas: language acquisition; bilingualism; infancy & childhood; language disorders; development -
Andrew Chapman
- Professor, Psychology
- PhD Program Director, Psychology
Research areas: Analysis of synaptic mechanisms of learning and memory using electrophysiological and pharmacological techniques. -
Emily B.J. Coffey
- Associate Professor, Psychology
Research areas: sleep, plasticity, auditory neuroscience, aging, complex task learning, auditory-motor system, neuroimaging, closed-loop brain stimulation, human performance, portable neuroscience, exploration, spaceflight, misophonia, hearing-in-noise -
Michael Conway
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: social perception; nonverbal behaviour; anger, assertiveness, and interpersonal warmth -
Roberto G. de Almeida
- Professor, Psychology
Status: For details check https://psycholinguistics.weebly.comResearch areas: Cognitive science, concepts, verb meaning, metaphors, compositionality, language comprehension, language-vision interface, semantic deficits in Alzheimer's, cognitive neuroscience -
Mickael L.D. Deroche
- Associate Professor, Psychology
Research areas: hearing, cognition, language, development, emotion, auditory prostheses, cochlear implants, stuttering, neurosciences -
Kristen Dunfield
- Interim Associate Dean, Graduate Student Academic Matters & Postdoctoral Studies, School of Graduate Studies
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: cognitive development, social cognition, comparative cognition, prosocial behaviour, trust, cooperation -
Mark A. Ellenbogen
- Professor, Psychology
- Director, Centre for Research in Human Development
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Guillem Esber
- Associate Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Neural bases of learning and memory, reward learning, associative learning, animal models of psychiatric disorders, in-vivo electrophysiological recording, optogenetics -
Constantina Giannopoulos
- Associate Professor and Director of the Applied Psychology Centre, Psychology
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Jean-Philippe Gouin
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Stress, depression, insomnia, social support, dyadic coping, health behaviour change, autonomic functioning, psychoneuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology -
Mihaela D. Iordanova
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: learning and memory, prediction error, extinction and behavioural modification, high-density neuronal recording during behaviour, optogenetics, chemogenetics, fear, reward -
Aaron Paul Johnson
- Professor, Psychology
- Associate Vice President Research, Strategic Institutional Initiatives and Innovation, Office of the Vice-President, Research Innovation and Impact
- Interim Executive Director, District 3 Innovation
Research areas: Vision, Attention, Eye movements, Low vision, Macular degeneration, vision rehabilitation,EEG, dyslexia, Aviation, Pilots, Marketing. -
Karen Li
- Graduate Program Director (MA), Psychology
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Healthy aging, Executive functions, Motor control, Cognitive training, Multi-task performance, Gait and Balance, Hearing loss, Cognitive impairment, Cognitive reserve -
Joyce H. L. Lui
- Co-Director, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
- Director, Youth Behavioural Interventions Lab
- Assistant Professor, Psychology
Status: I will not be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.Research areas: child mental health, externalizing behaviours (disruptive behaviours, ADHD), interventions, dissemination & implementation, data science, mental health disparities -
Alexandre J.S. Morin
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Substantive methodological synergies, statistics (EFA, CFA, SEM, ESEM, latent profile analyses, mixture models, longitudinal models, growth mixture models), multidimensional self-conceptions, workplace commitment, wellbeing, intellectual disabilities -
Roisin M. O'Connor
- Professor, Psychology
- Core Member, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
Research areas: alcohol misuse, alcohol use disorder, anxiety, personality, cognition, cognitive behaviour therapy, young adult transitions, Indigenous youth well-being and resilience -
Virginia Penhune
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Brain plasticity related to motor learning. Emphasis on musical expertise and development. Structural and functional brain imaging. Auditory-motor integration and timing. -
Natalie Phillips
- Professor, Concordia University Research Chair (Tier 1) in in Sensory-Cognitive Health in Aging and Dementia, Psychology
Research areas: Neuropsychology, Cognition, Aging, Dementia, Speech and Language, Sensory function -
Diane Poulin-Dubois
- Professor, Psychology
Status: Full ProfessorResearch areas: Cognitive Development (categorization, selective trust, theory of mind) Language Development (bilingualism); -
Adam S. Radomsky
- Professor, Psychology
- Core Member, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
Status: NOT considering graduate students for 2026 admission - see laboratory websiteResearch areas: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Experimental Psychopathology -
Andrew G. Ryder
- Professor, Psychology
- Core Member, Centre for Clinical Research in Health (CCRH)
Status: On sabbatical: July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026Research areas: Cultural-Clinical Psychology (acculturation, anxiety, assessment, Brazil, China, culture, depression, emotion, Japan, Korea, language, meaning, personality, psychotherapy, religion, somatization, Russia) -
Norman Segalowitz
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Applied Linguistics, Assessment, Bilingualism, Cognitive Learning Strategies, Cognitive Psychology, Language Acquisition, Learning Strategies, Memory & Attention in Skill Acquisition -
Uri Shalev
- Professor, Psychology
Research areas: Behavioural Neurobiology, Substance Use Disorders (SUD), Relapse
Affiliated faculty
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Philip C. Abrami
- Professor Emeritus & Honorary Research Chair, Education
Research areas: Cognitive Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Quantitative Synthesis -
Simon L Bacon
- CIHR-SPOR Chair in Innovative, Patient-Oriented, Behavioural Clinical Trials, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
- FRQS co-Chair in AI and Digital Health for Health Behaviour Change, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
Research areas: Behavioural Medicine, Behaviour change interventions, Obesity and Bariatric care, Stress, Patient-Oriented Research, Evidence synthesis and systematic reviews
Linda Booij
- Professor, Psychiatry, McGill U.
Research areas: Eating disorders, Brain development, Genetics, Epigenetics.
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Richard Courtemanche
- Professor, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
Research areas: Neurophysiology, oscillatory activity, network coherence, connectivity, cerebellum, basal ganglia, motor control -
Thanh Dang-Vu
- Professor & Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health, Centre for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology
Research areas: Sleep, Sleep Disorders, Insomnia, Hypersomnia, Neuroimaging, Electroencephalography, Cognition, Neurodegeneration, Preventive Health, Dementia, Clinical Trials, Biomarkers
Ana Maria Gonzalez-Barrero
- Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dalhousie U.
Research areas: Language, literacy, and cognitive skills of monolingual and bilingual children with typical development and children with neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism. Issues related to cultural and linguistic diversity, open science, and evidence-based practice.
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Nina Howe
- Professor , Education
- Honorary Concordia University Research Chair in Early Childhood Development and Education
Status: I am in the process of retiring and not taking on new graduate students.
Tomas Jurcik
- Clinical Psychologist Director, Health and Balance Counselling, Port Moody B.C.
Ruth Kircher
- Researcher, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
Research areas: Multilingualism and minority languages. Phenomena relating to minority language endangerment, maintenance, and revitalisation. Intergroup relations between majority and minority communities.
Jennifer J. McGrath
- Professor, Psychology, BingHamton U.
Research areas: Childhood preventative health, Psychosocial determinants of health, Psychophysiology, Pediatric cardiovascular behavioral medicine, Datascience
Linda Polka
- Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill U.
Research areas: Bilingual learners and speakers, Healthy adults, Hearing impaired, Typically-developing infants and children
Elizaveta Solomonova
- Part-time faculty, Psychology
Research areas: First-person techniques for the study of subjective experience with electrophysiology and other biomarkers, such as epigenetics and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Samuel Veissière
- Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill U.
Research areas: Ethnographic, experimental, clinical, evolutionary, contemplative, and psychoanalytic perspectives on human cognition, consciousness, and mental health.
Walter Wittich
- Associate Professor, School of Optometry, U. de Montreal
Research areas: Basic sensory science, Medical, psychosocial, and rehabilitation approaches to sensory loss
Limited-term appointments
Serena Bianchi
Lucia Farisello
David Grenet
Elliott Morrice
Part-time faculty
Rebecca Achtman
Brenda Harvey
Jack Hirschberg
Elmira Ismaylova
Dita Kubin
Conall Mac Cionnaith
Erwin Neumark
Krystle-Lee Turgeon
Distinguished Professors Emeriti
Shimon Amir (2025)
Peter Shizgal (2018)
Barbara Woodside (2013)
Dolores Pushkar (2013)
Anna-Beth Doyle (2010)
Jane Stewart (2009)
Alex Schwartzman (2004)
Zalman Amit (2003)
Tannis Arbuckle-Maag (2002)
Campbell Perry (1997)