Dr. Marika Demers is an assistant professor in the School of Rehabilitation, at the Université de Montréal and an emerging researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal. She is a Junior 1 research scholar from the Fonds de la Recherche du Québec – health. Dr. Demers received her BSc in occupational therapy from the Université de Montréal, and her MSc and PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at McGill University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Motor Behavior and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory in the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California. She is also a trained occupational therapist with clinical expertise in stroke rehabilitation. Her research interests involve the use of health technologies to better assess and optimize arm and hand motor recovery for people post-stroke.