Academic Background / Training
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Roman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital, University of Toronto - Supervisor: Randy McIntosh
Ph.D., Psychology/Behavioral Neuroscience Training Program – McGill University - Supervisor: Robert Zatorre
Visiting Scientist, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Stanford University
M.A., Clinical Psychology (Developmental) – York University
B.Sc., Psychology/Neuroscience – University of Toronto
Additional Training
Advanced Neuroimaging Summer Program – University of California Los Angeles
Multimodal Brain Imaging Short Course – Massachusetts General Hospital
Summer Training Course in fMRI – University of Michigan
Biology of Developmental Disabilities Sackler Summer Institute – Princeton University
Invited Lectures
2011 Google – Mountain View, California
2011 Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music – Montreal, Canada
2011 Toronto Western Hospital – Neurology Rounds – Toronto, Canada
2011 BRAMS International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research – Montreal, Canada
2011 Music and Brain Conference – Stanford University, California, USA
2011 Yukon Science Institute Monthly Public Lectures – Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
2011 The Science Institute, Dawson – Yukon, Canada
2011 Dawson High School – lectures for students – Dawson, Yukon
2010 Highfield Imaging International Conference – Bonn, Germany
2009 The Science of Music – a series of lectures for children between the ages 6-12 at Montreal Children’s Libraries
2006 Autism Society of Ontario Annual Science Day – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Awards and Fellowships
Post-Doctoral:
2015 SEMPRE - Reg and Molly Buck Award
2013 Banting - Postdoctoral Fellowship
2013 Organization for Human Brain Mapping – Travel Award & paper accepted for a talk
2012 Canadian Institute for Health Research - Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined)
2012 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience NSERC-Create - Postdoctoral Award (declined)
PhD:
2013 Council of Graduate Studies/Proquest - Top Dissertation in Biological and Life Sciences (Canada and USA)
2011 Google Internship
2011 Baycrest Hospital – Rotman Research Institute – NSERC-Create Internship Award
2011 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience NSERC-Create Internship Award
2011 McGill University GREAT Award – Travel award to present at the Human Brain Mapping Conference
2011 McGill University Faculty of Medicine – MedStar Award
2011 Organization for Human Brain Mapping – Travel Award & paper accepted for a talk
2011 Quebec Bio-Imaging Network – Travel Award to attend the Human Brain Mapping Conference (declined)
2011 American Psychological Society – Travel Award
2011 CIRMMT* – Travel award to present at the American Psychological Society Conference
2011 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Network – NSERC-Create Internship
2011 American Psychological Association – Division 10: Frank X Barron Award for Outstanding Research Contribution by a Student
2011 CIRMMT* – Travel award to present the Crossing the Corpus Callosum Conference
2010 McGill University Psychology – Best Teaching Assistant Award
2010 Montreal Neurological Institute – Jeanne Timmins Costello Graduate Student Fellowship
2010 McGill University Alma Matter – Travel award to present at the Human Brain Mapping Conference
2010 CIRMMT* Annual Conference – Best Talk Award
2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Symposium– Best Talk Award
2009 CIRMMT* – Travel Award to attend the Psychonomics Society Conference
2009 Society for Music Analysis – Travel Award to attend the Music and Emotions Conference
2009 CIRMMT* – Travel Award to attend the Music and Emotions Conference (declined)
2009 CIRMMT* Annual Conference – Best Poster Award
2009 Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research – Travel Award
2009 McGill University Neuroscience Poster Day – Outstanding Abstract Award
2009 Sigma Xi – Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research Award
2009 Organization for Human Brain Mapping – Travel Award & Paper accepted for a Talk
2009 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Symposium– Best Poster Award
2009 CIRMMT* – Research Fellowship
2009 McGill University Alma Matter – Travel Award
2008 CIRMMT* – Travel Award to attend the Psychonomics Society Conference
2008 CIRMMT* – Research Fellowship
2007 Natural Science and Engineering Research Council – PGS-D – National Fellowship Award
2006 McGill University – Behavioral Neuroscience Program/CIHR Graduate Fellowship
2006 McGill University – Recruitment Excellence Fellowship
Masters:
2006 Autism Society of Ontario – Travel Award
2006 International Meeting for Autism Research – Travel Award
2005 Natural Science and Engineering Research Council – PGS-D - National Award (declined)
2004 Natural Science and Engineering Research Council – PGS-M - National Award
2004 Princeton Summer Institute – John Merck Fund, Sackler Institute - Travel Award
2003 Ontario Graduate Scholarship – Provincial Scholarship
2003 York University – Masters Level Entrance Scholarship
Undergraduate:
2003 Autism Society of Ontario – Summer Student Research Scholarship
2001 Golden Key International Honor Society – Recruited Membership
1996 York University – Entrance Scholarship (declined)
* CIRMMT: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Music, Media, and Technology