Robert-Paul Juster, PhD
Robert-Paul Juster is the Director of the Center on Sex*Gender, Allostasis, and Resilience (CESAR) situated at the Research Center of the Montreal Mental Health University Institute. Dr. Juster is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Montreal. Dr. Juster completed his graduate studies in Psychology at Concordia University (BSc) and Neuroscience at McGill University (MSc, PhD) before completing a Post-Doctoral fellowship in Psychiatry at Columbia University.

Together with his international collaborators, Dr. Juster has contributed over 70 peer-review publications and has an h-index of 28. Dr. Juster's research focuses on teasing apart the role of biological sex and socio-cultural gender in explaining pathways that render us vulnerable or resilient to stress-related disease. Dr. Juster has developed expertise in the measurement of allostatic load, the 'wear and tear' of chronic stress and unhealthy behaviors that is measured with biomarkers. Robert-Paul has led research on understanding how stigma, stress, and strain influence the health and well-being. In his newly launched laboratory CESAR, he and his students aim to further advance sex*gender and allostatic load research among diverse populations such as the LGBT community, workers, and psychiatric patients.