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Daniel Fortin-Guichard

Title: 
Assistant Professor
Daniel Fortin-Guichard
Contact Information
Email address: 
daniel.fortin-guichard [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Currie Gymnasium
475 Avenue des Pins Ouest
Montreal, Quebec H2W 1S4
Canada

Division: 
Adapted Physical Activity Supervisors
Sport and Exercise Psychology Supervisors
Department: 
Kinesiology & Physical Education
Area(s): 
Mental Health, Intervention and Psychopathology
Physical Health Education and Adapted Physical Activity
Sports and Exercise Sciences
Areas of expertise: 
  • Talent identification in high-performance sports
  • Perceptual-cognitive skills in sports
  • Cognitive biases in selection
  • Use of new technologies in sport psychology
  • Skill acquisition and expertise
  • Classification in parasports
Biography: 

Dr. Daniel Fortin-Guichard received his PhD from Universit茅 Laval in 2020 in psychology, specializing in perceptual-cognitive skills in sports. Since then, he has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2020-2022) and the University of Toronto (2022-2024), where he specialized in talent identification research through psychological characteristics, mainly in team sports. In Amsterdam, he also developed an interest in classification research for athletes with vision impairment. From an applied perspective, he has been working with the Quebec Remparts (within the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League) as an advisor to the scouting staff. Each year, he travels Eastern Canada with the scouts to measure the players' psychological and perceptual-cognitive skills. Outside of his academic interests, Dr. Fortin-Guichard is also a high-performance coach (ultimate frisbee) and a former athlete (ultimate frisbee, volleyball, baseball). Playing complex board games and administering a Fantasy Hockey league are among his other hobbies.

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Degree(s): 

Postdoctoral fellowship, Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Postdoctoral fellowship, Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doctorate (PhD), Psychology, Universit茅 Laval, Canada
Master (MA), Psychology, Universit茅 Laval, Canada
Bachelor (BA), Psychology, Universit茅 Laval, Canada
DEC, History & Civilization, CEGEP de L茅vis-Lauzon, Canada

Selected publications: 
  • Fortin-Guichard, D., T茅treault, 脡., Paquet, D., Mann, D. L., & Grondin, S. (2023).
  • Fortin-Guichard, D., Ravensbergen, H. J. C., Krabben, K., Allen, P. M., & Mann, D. L. (2022).
  • Fortin-Guichard, D., Huberts, I., Sanders, J., van Elk, R., Mann, D. L., & Savelsbergh, G. J. (2022). .
  • Fortin-Guichard, D., Blaauw, E., van der Rijst R., Tweedy, S., & Mann, D. L. (2022). The role of classification in talent identification and development in Para sports. In N. Dehghansai, R. Pinder, & J. Baker (Eds.). Talent Development in Paralympic Sport.
  • Fortin-Guichard, D., Laflamme, V., Julien, A.-S., Trottier, C., & Fortin-Guichard, D. (2020).
  • Fortin-Guichard, D., Boudreault, V., Gagnon, S., & Trottier, C. (2018).
Program: 
  • Bachelor of Education Physical and Health Education
  • Bachelor of Science Kinesiology
  • Bachelor of Science Kinesiology - Honours
  • Master of Arts Kinesiology and Physical Education (Thesis)
  • Ph.D. Kinesiology Sciences
Graduate supervision: 

Accepting Masters of Arts students for the 2025-26 academic year.

Open to two prospective Masters students interested in talent identification in sports: Projects about (1) current athletes' characteristics that may be predictive of future success and (2) selectors cognitive biases that may alter talent identification.

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