Pr. Mercier received a B.Sc. in Occupational therapy and a Ph.D. in Biomedical sciences (Rehabilitation) from University of Montreal. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences in Lyon, France. She is now Professor at the School of Rehabilitation Sciences of Université Laval’s Faculty of Medicine (Quebec City, Canada) and Scientific Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (Cirris). She holds the Canada Research Chair in Sensorimotor Rehabilitation and Pain, the Université Laval Research Chair in Cerebral Palsy, and is a former Emerita Scholar from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé. Her research program focuses on interactions between pain, sensorimotor integration and learning, as well as on strategies to promote optimal recovery in rehabilitation. She conducts studies in various clinical populations (chronic pain, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, amputation) and in healthy individuals using diverse methodological approaches (robotics, virtual reality, brain stimulation/imaging, EEG, EMG, accelerometry). She has published over 130 scientific papers and supervised 40 graduate or postdoctoral trainees.