Chris Striemer is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University and is the Group Lead for the MacEwan Cognition and Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG). Current research projects in his lab are focused on: 1) the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying visuomotor response inhibition, 2) how visuomotor adaptation  (e.g., prism adaptation) can influence attention and perception, and 3) the cognitive, sensory, and visuomotor impairments that arise following following stroke. 

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Udi Alter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University and a quantitative methodologist whose work sits at the intersection of psychology and statistics. He completed his PhD at York University and has worked as a statistician at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Current research projects in his lab focus mostly on: 1) statistical and psychometric methods for complex data and constructs that cannot be directly observed, including multilevel and Bayesian approaches to the multiplicity problem; 2) making modern methods accessible to researchers through open-access tutorial papers and free software such as R packages and Shiny apps; and 3) how students learn statistics and statistical software, including sources of statistics anxiety, point-and-click vs. syntax-based tools, and the role of AI in learning to program. 

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Dana Cobzas is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at MacEwan University whose expertise centers on imaging and computer vision, with particular interest in mathematical models for medical image processing. Current research interests focus on: 1) methods for medical image segmentation, registration, and noise reduction, 2) dynamic vision, including tracking, and 3) 3D modeling from uncalibrated images and video, reconstructing both geometry and appearance. 

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Trevor Hamilton is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University, and specializes in behavioural neuroscience.  Current research projects in his lab include: 1) development and testing of learning and memory tests in fish. 2) The impact of acute, repeated, and chronic pharmacological and toxicants on fish behaviour. 3) Selective breeding for bold/shy (low anxiety/high anxiety) zebrafish and the impact on neural systems.

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Cameron Hassall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University

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Michelle Jarick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University and leads the Atypical Perception Lab. She completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo, where she studied synaesthesia to understand how the brain integrates sensory information, and then held a postdoctoral position in the Brain and Attention Research Lab (BARLab) in Vancouver. Current research in her lab focuses on: 1) why sustained eye contact is so difficult to maintain, and 2) how perceptual effects discovered in the lab apply to real-world situations. 

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Eric Legge is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University. Current research projects in his lab focus on: 1) how people learn, remember, and navigate spatial environments, including studies using virtual reality, 2) individual differences in mental imagery, including aphantasia, and their relationship to memory and spatial cognition, and 3) whether playing video games can improve executive functioning, including planning, problem solving, and cognitive flexibility.

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Christopher Madan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University. Current research projects in his lab are focused on: 1) how our use of memory is changing with emerging technologies, 2) how motivational factors--such as emotion and reward--influence memory and decision making, and 3) how brain structures differ across aging, clinical populations, and species.

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Samuel Mugo is a Professor and Associate Dean, Development in the Department of Chemistry at MacEwan University, where he has taught since 2008. He completed his PhD in analytical chemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland and held an NSERC postdoctoral position at Queen's University. Current research projects in his group focus on: 1) developing "smart" polymer nanomaterials, including responsive hydrogels, nanozymes, and molecularly imprinted materials, for chemical sensing, 2) building low-cost, mobile point-of-need sensors that pair with data analytics apps for agri-food and environmental quality assessment, and 3) noninvasive wearable sensors for mental health and wellness monitoring. 

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Sam Qorbani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at MacEwan University and the Founder and Lead Researcher of the XR Media Research Group (XRMRG). He is also an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, where he completed his PhD in Information Technology. Current research projects: 1) Interactive Animal-Assisted Intervention for stress reduction research, 2) accessible interaction techniques and user experience in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, 3) immersive simulations for STEM, healthcare, and social work education, developed with domain experts in those fields, and 4) the measurement of learning in immersive environments, including the use of AI to infer learner competence from interaction data.

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Matthew Ross is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences at MacEwan University. He completed his PhD in environmental and analytical chemistry at the University of Alberta and was a postdoctoral fellow in the university's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. His multidisciplinary research draws on environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, and toxicology, and focuses on: 1) identifying petroleum acids in oil sands process water and tracing their fate in the environment, 2) the sources and fate of microplastics in the environment, and 3) the fate, effects, and behavioral toxicology of novel environmental contaminants. 

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