Sylvain Baillet is a physicist and neuroscientist with an international career, having led research groups on university-hospital campuses in France, the USA, and Canada.

He currently holds the Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Neural Dynamics of Brain Systems. Sylvain is also a Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada. His scholarly work spans a wide range of domains, from fundamental mechanisms of brain functions to imaging technologies, contributing a translational body of work addressing challenging clinical questions.

An early advocate of open science, Sylvain has developed scientific software tools and data repositories widely adopted by the global community.

Concurrently, he has served in various university administrative roles and participated in multiple institutional boards and international committees, aiming to enable excellence across biomedical sciences and at the interface between disciplines. In 2023, he was elected Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.