Dr. Robert-Paul Juster

Dr. Robert-Paul Juster (he/him) is an integrative neuroscientist and currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Montreal. He leads the Center on Sex*Gender, Allostasis, and Resilience (CESAR) based at the Research Center of the Montreal Mental Health University Institute. His research focuses on stress and resilience using a sex and gender lens. Dr. Juster has expertise in the measurement of allostatic load, the ‘wear and tear’ of chronic stress. In much of Dr. Juster’s research, he and his team of aim to better understand how stigma, stress, and strain influence the health of equity deserving groups. His research program has also included studying allostatic load among many diverse groups across lifespan development with a particular focus on using allostatic load as a marker of accelerated aging in biological psychiatry.