Prospective Students

Want to see inside the living brain, and use what you see to help people age better? We are looking for undergraduate interns and MSc and PhD students to join us at the Montreal Heart Institute and the Université de Montréal.

Build methods: MRI physics, image reconstruction and deep learning

Measure physiology: blood flow, oxygen extraction and metabolism in the living brain

Answer clinical questions: how heart disease, menopause or exercise change the brain

Why join the QPI Lab

Research that matters

Cardiovascular disease and dementia are among the leading causes of death and disability. Our work aims to find the people at risk early and test interventions, from exercise to dance, that could change their trajectory.

Your own papers

Trainees lead their own projects from data to publication. Most of the lab’s recent papers have a trainee as first author, and students present their work at international meetings such as ISMRM.

A unique setting

Work inside a cardiology hospital and its prevention centre (Centre EPIC), with real participants, clinicians and kinesiologists, in bilingual Montreal: work in English or French.

What you’ll learn

MRI physics: arterial spin labelling, quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), calibrated fMRI, relaxometry, MP2RAGE
Image processing and machine learning: building pipelines, deep learning for segmentation, modelling disease trajectories
Physiology: cerebral blood flow, vascular reactivity, oxygen extraction (OEF) and metabolism (CMRO2), and how the heart drives them
Clinical research: study design, working with participants, cognitive testing, statistics
Open science: our tools, such as VeinSeg, are open source on GitHub

Positions

Undergraduate interns

Summer or term research internships, a great way to try research. Ideal for physics, engineering, computer science, neuroscience or kinesiology students.

MSc and PhD students

Graduate projects in MRI methods or in brain and cardiovascular health. Students from quantitative and life-science backgrounds are both welcome.

How to apply

Send Dr. Gauthier an email with:

your CV and unofficial transcripts
a few sentences on your research interests and which of our projects appeal to you
the position you are applying for (internship, MSc or PhD) and your intended start date

Email Dr. Gauthier