Claudine Gauthier

Dr. Claudine Gauthier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Concordia University. Her research uses quantitative magnetic resonance imaging to understand the heart-brain axis in aging and vascular diseases. Dr. Gauthier completed her Ph.D. investigating cerebral physiology in healthy aging using quantitative fMRI under the supervision of Richard Hoge at the University of Montreal. After her Ph.D., Dr. Gauthier completed a postdoctoral position in Neurophysics and Neurology at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, under the supervision of Drs. Robert Turner and Arno Villringer. Dr. Gauthier joined Concordia University as an Assistant Professor in 2014. In addition to her position at Concordia, Dr. Gauthier is also a researcher at the Montreal Heart Institute, where she holds the Michal and Renata Hornstein Chair in Cardiovascular Imaging. Her work is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Funds for Innovation and the Québec Bio-Imaging Network.