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Dr. Habib Benali completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Rennes University in 1985. He joined the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in 1989. He served as Head of the Laboratory of Functional Imaging (INSERM U678 unit with over 65 members) from 2008 to 2013 and Deputy Director of the Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (with over 100 members), INSERM - The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Sorbonne University until 2015. Together with Prof. Julien Doyon, from the Université de Montréal (UdeM), he founded and became co-director of the International Laboratory of Neuroimaging and Modelisation of the INSERM-Sorbonne University and UdeM administrative bodies in 2007. He is a regular research member of the Centre de Recherche Mathématiques of UdeM since 2002 and a researcher at Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, UdeM, since 2005. I am currently the Scientific Director for the PERFORM Centre, NSERC Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Biomedical Imaging and Healthy Aging and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University. In the last 30 years, he has gone from starting a new neuroimaging research activity to directing a productive laboratory in France and Canada with activities that span from the development of new mathematical modeling and image analysis techniques to cognitive neuroscience and clinical applications. During this productive time in his scientific career, he published more than 300 peer reviewed papers in the best scientific journals. He is a member of national and international per review committees, executive committees and member of Advisory Board & committees.