Biography
Michel-Pierre Coll obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Université Laval in 2016. During his Ph.D. research, he studied the cognitive neuroscience of pain communication and pain empathy in clinical contexts with Prof Philip Jackson. Between 2016 and 2019 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Geoff Bird at the University of Oxford (FRQS fellowship) and researched interoceptive and socio-emotional processing in psychiatric conditions, often using pain as a research tool. Between 2019 and 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Mathieu Roy at McGill University (CIHR fellowship) and used neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI) to study the modulation of acute pain by learning and valuation using computational modelling and machine learning. Since September 2021, he is an assistant professor at Université Laval and researcher at the Centre de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS). He received a Research Scholar Award (Junior 1) in artificial intelligence and digital health to establish his research program at Université Laval, aiming to study pain modulation by learning processes in chronic pain and develop predictive models of pain using machine learning applied to neuroimaging.
