She holds the Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neuropsychology at the Université de Montréal and the University Hospital Center Sainte-Justine researching brain disorders.
In 1993, she became President of the French Canadian Association for the Advancement of Sciences (ACFAS). In 1999, she was made a Knight (Chevalier) of the National Order of Quebec. In 1994, she was made a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and in 1997, she became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She has received several awards, including the Marcel Vincent Prize (ACFAS) in 1998, the Noeil Mailloux Prize (Quebec Order of Psychologists, 2001) and the Adrien Pinard Prize (Quebec Association for Research in Psychology, SQRP, 2008). She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in June 2012.
Jean-Jacques Nattiez is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal. He studied semiology with Georges Mounin and Jean Molino and music semiology (doctoral) with Nicolas Ruwet.
Bartha Maria Knoppers, OC OQ is a Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology.
Acfas is the principal French-language learned society in Canada and, particularly, Quebec.
André Parent, is a Canadian researcher specializing in neurobiology, and Professor Emeritus at Université Laval.
Luc Vinet is a Canadian physicist and mathematician. He was former rector of the Université de Montréal between 2005 and 2010. He is the CEO of IVADO, created in 2015 since August 2021.
Ashok K. Vijh, is an Indian born Canadian chemist. He was born in Punjab but moved to Canada in 1962.
Michel Chrétien is a Canadian medical researcher specializing in neuroendocrinology research at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, or Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, (IRCM). He is a younger brother of former Canadian prime minister, Jean Chrétien.
Paul Marmet, was a Canadian physicist, inventor, author, and professor at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, who served as the President of the Canadian Association of Physicists.
René Pomerleau, OC was a mycologist and plant pathologist whose specialty was fungi and lichens. He received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from Laval University before an MS at the McGill University and later study at the Sorbonne. In 1972, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University. He has been called the "Father of mycology in Canada" and seen as a pioneering plant pathologist. The film La mycolade also had him as the main character.
Pierre Legendre, is a professor of ecology at Université de Montréal. He is the founder of Numerical Ecology, which is a quantitative subdiscipline of community ecology, with his brother the oceanographer Louis Legendre.
Louis Legendre is a Canadian-trained oceanographer whose later career took him to France.
Louis Bernatchez was a Canadian professor of genetics at Laval University and a Canada Research Chair in genomics and conservation of aquatic resources.
Rémi Quirion, is a Canadian scientist. He is the first Chief Scientist of Quebec.
Danielle Juteau is a Québécoise professor of sociology.
Thérèse Gouin-Décarie is a Canadian developmental psychologist and educator living in Quebec. She is known for her work on intellectual and emotional development in young children.
Gilles Fontaine was a professor of astrophysics at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada.
Louise Nadeau is a Canadian clinical psychologist. She is a professor in the department of psychology at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada, recognized for her contributions to the field of addictions.
Albéric Boivin was a Canadian physicist known for his work in optics.
Donna Mergler is a Canadian physiologist and currently professor emerita in the department of biological sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on environmental health, specifically the effects of neuro-toxins on workplace and environment. She has also brought in lasting and real solutions to environmental degradation, while also focusing on gender and social equity.
Louise Dandurand (1950–2016) was a Canadian political scientist and administrator of university research in Canada.
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