EDUCATION

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology (May, 2011)

• Cognitive Science Certificate Program; Perceptual Science Training Program

Stanford University Continuing Studies, Stanford, California

• Courses in the humanities, neuroscience, and computer science (1998-2004)

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

• B.A., Philosophy and Psychology (December, 1995)

RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TomTom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Senior User Experience Researcher  (2022 - present)

• User Experience Researcher  (2019 - 2021)

trivago, Düsseldorf, Germany

• User Experience Researcher - Human-Computer Interaction (2017 - 2019)

Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2015 - 2017)

Foundational Processes of Behaviour, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012 - 2015)

Laboratoire de Psychologie, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (summer 2011)

Visual Attention Lab, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Research Assistant/Lab Manager (2005 - 2011)

Public Health Institute, Oakland, California

• Research Consultant (2001 - 2008, part-time)

Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California

• Computer/Research Associate Research IT Manager (2001 - 2005)

• Social Science Research Assistant III (2001 - 2005)

• Social Science Research Assistant II (1997 - 2001) 

Jones Graduate School of Administration, Rice University, Houston, Texas

• Bookkeeper Assistant (1996 - 1997)

• Research Assistant / Steering Committee (1996)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia

• Unit Coordinator: Human Learning (2014) 

• Instructor: Experimental Research Project (2013 - 2014) 

• Instructor: Cognitive Processes Tutorial (2012)

English Department Writing Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Instructor: Expository Writing (2010 - 2011)

Psychology Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Instructor: Cognition Lab (2006 - 2008)

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Gabrieli Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Stanford, California

• Intern / Research Assistant (2004 - 2005, part-time)

SKILLS & INTERESTS

• Proficient in MATLAB, SPSS, R (RStudio), EyeLink and Tobii (eye-tracking systems), MS Office,  EndNote, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere.

• Previously worked with ArcView Mapping software, PsychoPy, SuperLab, Vision Shell, E-Prime, Unix Shell Script, Dreamweaver, and web-based programming languages (SQL, ASP, and HTML). .

• Three years laboratory experience developing and printing black and white photographs, one semester printing color photographs.

• Fluent in English; conversational Arabic; basic French and Spanish.

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

• WSU Research Investment Fund Grant: Visual stability and spatial memory (2013 - 2014)

• CODDE Computational Vision Workshop in Marburg, Germany (2010)

• Robert J. Glushko & Pamela Samuelson Foundation Student Travel Award (2009)

• NSF IGERT Training Fellowship in Perceptual Science (2008 - 2010)

• Rutgers University Conference Travel Award (2007 & 2009)

• Rutgers University Graduate Fellowship (2005)