Eye Investigate

Academic Track

Postdoctoral Fellow with Constantin Rothkopf (Psychology of Information Processing), TU Darmstadt, Germany (since August 2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow with Randy Flanagan (Cognition & Action Lab) and Jason Gallivan (Memory, Action, & Perception Lab), Queen’s University (November 2020 - August 2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow with Miriam Spering (Oculomotor Lab), University of British Columbia (July 2019 - August 2020)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Research Fellowship (grant FO 1347/1-1)

Listenplatz 3 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, W1-professorship for Applied Cognitive Psychology (July 2023)

VSS Caregiver Support grant at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (May 2024)
Dr. Wilhelmy-GSO Travel Expenses Program from the German Scholar Organization (February 2024)
ECVP Travel Award at the European Conference on Visual Perception (August 2019)
FoVea Travel and Networking Award at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (May 2019)
Trainee Professional Development Award at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (November 2018)
Margaret Adamson Estate Award from the University of British Columbia (UBC) Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (January 2018)
Graduate Award from UBC Faculty of Medicine (January 2017)
Elsevier / Vision Research Travel Award at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (May 2016)
Best Tutor Award from RWTH Department of Experimental Physics (April 2010)

Research assistant in Miriam Spering’s Oculomotor Lab, Deptartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC (September 2015-July 2019)
Research assistant in Dinesh Pai’s Sensorimotor Systems Lab, Department Computer Science, UBC (September 2013-August 2015)
Research intern in Miriam Spering’s Neuroscience of Vision & Action Lab, Deptartment Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC (June 2012-October 2012)
Research Intern in Daniel Timm’s Innovative Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology Lab, Prince Charles Hospital, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (March 2012-June2012)
Research assistant in Martin Baumann’s Biophysical & Education Engineering Lab, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, RWTH Aachen (October 2010-May 2013)

Guest Lecturer, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Canada
Introduction to Modelling in Neuroscience (NSCI 401). Lecture topic: Fighting for attention: Continuous control of action and perception in multi-tasking.
Co-Instructor, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Canada
Processing and Interaction in the Real World (PSYC 961): Movement planning and control; motor learning and memory; decision-making in action selection; action observation and mirror neurons; action-perception coupling; eye-hand coordination; visual pathways for action versus perception.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sensory Systems & Perceptual Processing (PSYC 367/368): Anatomy and physiology of the sensory pathways and their relation to perceptual phenomena.
Laboratory Supervisor, Department of Experimental Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Physics Laboratory for Medical Students: Practical demonstrations of simple physical phenomena, e.g. modulation of blood pressure, ionic transmission, optics of the eye.

Elected chair for Eye Movements – Gordon Research Seminar 2023 at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA, USA. Responsibilities include working closely together with the Gordon Research Conference Chairs to fundraise the bi-annual meeting, compose the scientific program, invite speakers, and select discussion leaders. Additionally, I host monthly virtual meetups (Science Chat) for early-career researchers and run the GRC twitter account.
Invited session chair at the Vision Sciences Society 2021 Annual Meeting (virtual). Moderated talk session: Eye movements: Saccades, pursuit, vergence.

Medicine students: Nethmi Illamperuma, Pooja Patel, Christian Schlappner, Andy Liu
Undergraduate students: Allison Scott, Vera Bulowski, Bethany Piekkola, Elizabeth Robichaud, Leslie Sun, Rose Shannon, Kiran Mann, Pearson Wyder-Hodge

Manuscripts: eLife, Journal of Vision, Journal of Neurophysiology, PLoS One, Human Movement Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Scientific Reports, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Visual Cognition, Brain Sciences, Optometry and Vision Science, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Psychological Research
Conference abstracts: Gordon Research Seminar on Eye Movements (2019)

Field hockey coach for junior and women’s league (September 2014-March 2018)
European Summer School in Visual Neuroscience, Giessen University, Germany (September 2016)
Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience, Queens University, Canada (August 2013)
Floor Warden, Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems, UBC (October 2018-March 2020)
Local Health and Safety Committee, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, ICORD (June 2016-April 2017)
Space and Safety Committee, Department of Computer Science, UBC (April 2014-August 2015)
Vice President of Graduate Student Association, Department of Computer Science, UBC (May 2014-May 2015)
Elected Chair for Student Association, Department of Physics, Math, and Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University (April 2008-August 2010)
Community Service Program at Malaysian Hockey Federation (August 2007-February 2007)