VSS Board Candidates
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Election to the VSS Board of Directors
Two positions on the Board of Directors are to be filled by this election.
Bill Geisler is the only Board member stepping down this year.
Each newly elected Director will serve a 4-year term on the VSS Board of
Directors. Responsibilities of the Board include scheduling the Annual Meeting,
implementing and monitoring VSS policies and budget, fundraising, and other
VSS-related activities.
The four candidates were selected by an independent Nominating Committee from
all the candidates nominated by VSS members.
Log in to cast
your vote. Voting will close on April 26, 2010 (11:59 pm latest time
zone on earth). See below for a list of
the current board members.
Candidates for Position One
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Miguel Eckstein
University of California, Santa Barbara, US
Miguel Eckstein is a Professor at the Department of Psychology at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. He arrived from Buenos Aires in
1987 and on his first day in California somehow managed to get all his
belongings stolen from the back of the super shuttle on the way from San
Francisco airport to Berkeley. Things have looked a little brighter
since then. He earned a BS in Physics and Psychology at UC Berkeley and
a PhD in Psychology at UCLA. He then worked at the Department of Medical
Physics and Imaging, Cedars Sinai Medical Center and with the infamous
NASA Ames Vision group before joining UC Santa Barbara as a faculty
member in 2000.
Intellectually raised on spatial vision, motion energy models and
reading Barlow and Tanner, he is best known for his work on visual
search, attention, eye movements, perceptual learning, spatial vision
and medical image perception. His work has been recognized through a
number of awards including the Optical Society of America Young
Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and
the National Academy of Sciences, Troland Award. He has served as a
chair of the Optical Society/Fall Vision Meeting, the International
Workshop on Visual Attention, on program committees of the SPIE Human
Vision & Electronic Imaging Conference and the European Conference on
Visual Perception (ECVP), and as a member on National Institute of
Health study section panels for over 8 years. He is currently on the
editorial board of Journal of Vision, the Vision Editor of the Journal
of the Optical Society of America A, and Vice-director of UC Santa
Barbara's Sage Center for the Study of the Mind.
Website and CV:
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/eckstein/index.php
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Jeff Schall
Vanderbilt University, US
Jeff Schall is the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience at Vanderbilt
University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of Utah and
completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
at MIT. Schall's current research, supported by grants from the National Eye
Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science
Foundation, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, focuses on how the
visual system guides and controls eye movements. His research accomplishments
have been recognized by awards from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the James S.
McDonnell foundation and the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. In 1998
Schall received the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of
Sciences. He is a fellow of the Association of Psychological Science.
In
administrative and service roles, Schall has directed the Vanderbilt Vision
Research Center for over 10 years, serving as PI of the NEI Core grant and NEI
Training grant. He has also directed the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative &
Cognitive Neuroscience. Schall has served on the editorial boards of the
Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience and is on the Advisory Board
for Faculty of 1000 Biology Reports. He served on the Central Visual Processing
Study Section from 2005-2009, chairing it for two years. In 2003 he served on
the Advisory Panel for the 5 year Strategic Plan for Strabismus, Amblyopia and
Visual Processing, National Eye Institute and has served on the VSS Abstract
Review Committee since 2001.
Website and CV:
http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/schall/ |
Candidates for Position Two
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Peter Thompson
University of York, UK
Peter Thompson is senior lecturer in the Department
of Psychology at the University of York.
He received his PhD (on the perception of motion) from the
University of Cambridge in 1976.
He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania to work with Jack
Nachmias, supported by a Harkness Fellowship until he took up a
lectureship at York in 1978.
In 1990, supported as a Senior Research Associate by the National
Research Council, he worked in the vision group at NASA’s Ames Research
Center. Thompson is an
Executive Editor of the journal Perception and i-Perception, its on-line
sister journal launched this year.
He has attended every VSS meeting and was an early supporter of
‘Demo night’ which was sponsored by his viperlib website.
In 2006 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the UK
Higher Education Academy. He is author (with Tom Troscianko and Bob
Snowden) of the acclaimed textbook ‘Basic Vision’.
Although his main interest is in motion perception,
Thompson achieved some notoriety with the ‘Margaret Thatcher illusion’.
He has along standing interest in aftereffects and illusions and
was the Master of Ceremonies at last year’s ‘Best illusion of the Year
Contest’ at VSS. A contest that this year he intends to win.
Website and CV:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~pt2/html/cv.html |
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Frans Verstraten
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Frans Verstraten studied Experimental Psychology in Nijmegen (Netherlands) and
Trieste (Italy). He received his PhD from Utrecht University in 1994.
Subsequently he enjoyed post-doctoral life in the Vision Research Unit at
McGill, the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard, and the Human Information Processing
labs of ATR in Japan. After a visiting professorship at the University of
Toronto, he took up the chair of Experimental Psychology at Utrecht University
in 2000. From 2001 to 2010 he was the head of the Experimental Psychology
division. In the mean time, he also was the coordinator of the organizing
committee of the successful European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2008
in Utrecht. Currently he serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Helmholtz
Institute. Frans is mostly known for his work on motion perception, adaptation,
attention and binocular vision. He was 3 times the recipient of the teacher of
the year award in Psychology at Utrecht University.
He is member of the editorial boards of
(i-)Perception, Psychological Science, and Frontiers in Perception
Science. Frans is also known for bringing science to the general
audience: He is a frequent guest in scientific programs on national TV
and has columns in national newspapers and journals.
His way of life: Life is what you make it; work hard, but don’t forget
to celebrate!
Website and CV:
www.fss.uu.nl/psn/web/people/personal/verstraten/#personal
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Current Board of Directors
The names, term-end dates and areas of expertise are listed below (terms end
immediately after the VSS meeting of the year listed).
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Board Member |
Term Ends |
Expertise |
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Marisa Carrasco |
2012 |
Visual attention, visual search, perceptual learning, spatial
vision; psychophysics and neuroimaging |
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Barbara Dosher |
2013 |
Visual memory, visual attention, perceptual learning;
psychophysics and computational modeling |
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Karl Gegenfurtner |
2013 |
Color vision, eye movements, perception and action,
natural scenes, visual cognition; psychophysics and computational
modeling |
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Wilson Geisler |
2010 |
Spatial vision; natural scenes; visual search;
psychophysics and computational modeling |
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Zoe Kourtzi |
2012 |
Shape processing, object recognition, perceptual
learning, brain imaging |
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Pascal Mamassian |
2012 |
3D perception; binocular vision; motion; ambiguous and
rivalrous perception; multisensory perception; perception and action;
psychophysics and computational modeling |
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Tony Movshon |
2011 |
Neural mechanisms; motion perception; spatial vision;
visual development; neurophysiology, psychophysics, animal behavior |
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