Dr. Ravi Menon is Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Functional and Molecular Imaging at the Robarts Research Institute and Professor of Medical Biophysics, Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Physics and Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario, where he is also a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering. He is also currently serving as Deputy Scientific Director of the Robarts. His research is in the area of ultra high field functional magnetic resonance imaging, with an emphasis in neuroscience applications of fMRI and MRI physics and engineering.

 He has been a member of the numerous CIHR and NIH panels, and a committee reviewer for the CFI, FRSQ and the Canada Research Chairs program. He also has held grants from a broad spectrum of agencies; CIHR, NSERC, NIH, McDonnell-Pew, Human Frontiers, ORDCF, CFI, OIT, ORF and an Ontario-NCE. He was in the first round of recipients of a Premiers Research Excellence Award, a Canada Research Chair and an Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award. Additionally, he plays a major role as a member of The CIHR Group for Action and Perception based at UWO (Director Mel Goodale). His publication record in top-tier journals also reflects this broad scope, from fundamental imaging mechanism papers in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, to neuroscience papers in Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Current Biology or invited reviews in Trends and Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

In 2002, an international jury, including editors from Science and Nature, charged by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research named him one of Canada's Top 20 researchers under the age of 40 and awarded him the Young Explorer's medal. In 2003 he was named to the Caldwell Partners/Globe & Mail's Report on Business Top 40 under 40^TM. And in 2005 he was voted Best of the Best of the previous 10 years of the Top 40 under 40^TM program.

With two other members of his lab, he has established XL Resonance as a technology commercialization vehicle for basic engineering physics research in his laboratory. Technology developed under grant support is commercialized by XL Resonance and utilized in laboratories throughout the world.