Biography
Michel-Pierre Coll is a cognitive neuroscientist and neuropsychologist specializing in the cognitive and affective mechanisms of pain. His research aims to understand the behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying pain perception and modulation in health and disease.
During his postdoctoral training (2016–2021) at the University of Oxford and McGill University, he developed expertise in pain imaging, computational modeling, and machine learning. He is an associate professor at Université Laval and a researcher at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale (CIRRIS). His lab combines neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fMRI) with computational modeling and machine learning to study how learning and valuation processes modulate acute and chronic pain, and to develop predictive models of pain from neural data. This work spans both healthy individuals and clinical populations, with the broader goal of identifying the mechanisms that shape pain perception in health and disease.
