Alasdair studied mathematics at the University of Warwick, before obtaining a PhD in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. Since then, he has worked at School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, before joining the psychology department at the University of Essex in 2016. His research interests include eye movements during visual search and decision making. Recently, he has been getting overly excited about fitting overly-complicated Bayesian models in mcmc Stan to analyse how people throw bean bags into hula-hoops.

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Anna did her PhD at the University of Cambridge, has since worked at University College London and the University of Exeter, and will be joining the University of Essex in 2020. Her research focuses on a variety of questions about how humans and other animals might use visual information to search and interact with the world - including how best to optimise camouflage in multiple environments, and exactly why zebras might have stripes. More information is available at https://scienceanna.wixsite.com/home. She really likes R, the tidyverse, and very large cups of tea.

Veronica did her PhD at the University at Buffalo. Following her PhD, she joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex in 2017. Her research looks at how people balance trust and dependence in their romantic relationships during times of vulnerability and uncertainty. You can learn more about her research by visiting www.veronicalamarche.com. For her work, she has used SPSS, STATA and R.

Vanessa did her PhD at Colorado State University. Following postdocs in Switzerland, she joined the University of Essex in 2015. Her research concerns memory and cognition across the adult lifespan. Some people collect stamps or Beanie Babies -- Vanessa loves to amass as many methodological and statistical methods as she can, and convince as many students and colleagues as she can that anyone can learn to code. You can often find her coding in Matlab or R with a coffee or a tasty craft beer within reach. Find out more: https://sites.google.com/view/loaizamemorylab/

Keith studied Psychology at York University, UK, and then took research jobs at BT labs and St Andrews University. His PhD (at Aston University) investigated edge processing in human vision, and he continued to work on visual perception in postdoc positions at UCL, McGill University, Bradford University, UCL again, City University London, and UCL (yet again). He joined the Essex University Psychology Department as a lecturer in 2016. Since around the year 2000, Keith has used MATLAB for nearly every aspect of his work (running experiments, analysing data, modelling, making graphs and other figures, and even making a few posters when Powerpoint became too infuriating and cumbersome to use). He has even built a 3D model of part of his house in MATLAB to help visualise how to excavate his driveway. You can find out more about him at www.keithmay.org

Loes studied Physics and obtained her PhD at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. After her PhD she moved into multisensory perception and action as well as sensorimotor control/learning and has worked at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany and Bielefeld University, Germany, before becoming a staff-member at the University of Essex, UK in 2016. For her work she has programmed experimental softwares using several different platforms such as OpenGL in C and C++, Matlab together with Psychtoolbox etc. She likes to play with "toys"/gadgets like the Eyelink, PHANToM force-feedback devices, Virtual Reality and motion tracking.

You can find out more about her work by checking her Google Scholar profile.