About

Dr. Mei-Ching Lien was born and raised in Taiwan, where she attended Taipei Teacher's College and was an elementary school teacher for three years before moving to the United States in 1993.  She completed her BA in Psychology at Cleveland State University in 1995 and MA in Experimental Psychology at the same university in 1997.  After receiving her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, specializing in Human Factors, from Purdue University in 2001, she continued her post-doc training at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, with a National Research Council fellowship support.  In 2004, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Department of Psychology at Oregon State University. She later was promoted to Associate Professor and granted indefinite tenure in 2009.  She was promoted to Full Professor in the School of Psychological Science at Oregon State University in 2016.  Her research focuses on understanding visual/spatial attention, emotion processing, cognitive control, and examining how these mechanisms change with age using both behavioral measures and electrophysiological measures (e.g., EEG brain potentials). In 2004, she was awarded the Young Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance from the American Psychological Association.        

Opportunities for prospective Ph.D. students: I will be taking new graduate students. If you are interested in working with me, please following the link and send your application to the OSU Graduate Program before the deadline December 1st. Please note that you will apply for the Engineering Psychology Concentration. The ideal candidate should have research experience in EEG/ERP, computer programming (e.g., E-prime, Psytoolkit, Matlab) and statistical skills (e.g., SAS, R).