Nominations

Call For Nominations to the VSS Board of Directors

Nominations are open for two 4-year positions on the Vision Sciences Society Board of Directors. The Board's responsibilities include scheduling the Annual Meeting, implementing and monitoring VSS policies, budget oversight, and other organizational activities. The Board meets twice a year, during the Annual Meeting and in late January.

Any regular VSS member in good standing may be nominated, with the exception of individuals now on the board, or who have served on the board within the last four years.

Nomination Procedure

Each nomination must be endorsed by 3 regular VSS members. One person should email the nomination to shauneywilson@visionsciences.org with a cc: to the other two nominators. The other two nominators should indicate their endorsement by forwarding the nominating email to shauneywilson@visionsciences.org. Please include a recent vita and a short paragraph describing the qualifications of the nominee, as well as an assurance that the nominee is willing to serve.

Schedule for Election

Current Board of Directors

The names, term-end dates and areas of expertise of the Board members are listed below. Board terms end immediately after the VSS meeting of the year listed.

Marisa Carrasco (2012)
Visual attention, visual search, perceptual learning, spatial vision; psychophysics and neuroimaging

Barbara Dosher (2013)
Visual memory, visual attention, perceptual learning; psychophysics and computational modeling

Karl Gegenfurtner (2013)
Color vision, eye movements, perception and action, natural scenes, visual cognition; psychophysics and computational modeling

Wilson Geisler (2010)
Spatial vision, natural scenes, visual search; psychophysics and computational modeling

Zoe Kourtzi (2012)
Shape processing, object recognition, perceptual learning, brain imaging

Pascal Mamassian (2012)
3D perception, binocular vision, motion, ambiguous and rivalrous perception, multisensory perception, perception and action; psychophysics and computational modeling

Tony Movshon (2011)
Neural mechanisms, motion perception, spatial vision, visual development; neurophysiology, psychophysics, animal behavior

Bill Geisler will leave the Board after the Annual Meeting in May. The addition of two positions this year is due to anomalies in the timing of earlier terms of service. Last year, three Board members stepped down (Allison Sekuler, Mary Peterson, and Steve Shevell) while only two were elected (Barbara Dosher and Karl Gegenfurtner).