Professor Sophie Wuerger Ph.D.

Personal Statement

My main research interests are vision research and how the brain combines information from the different senses (multisensorial perception). I use primarily behavioural methods, but also electrophysiology and functional brain imaging. My research has both clinical and technological applications.

After obtaining a Ph.D. at New York University in visual neuroscience with Michael Landy and John Krauskopf, I continued as a post-doctoral researcher at NYU with John Krauskopf and Larry Maloney, before joining the Institute of Ophthalmology (UCL) as a postdoc to work with Michael Morgan.

In 2001, I was awarded a Senior National Research Council Fellowship to work at NASA Ames (CA) on computational vision models. Since then I have held visiting professorships at the University of Regensburg and at the Computer Vision Centre at the University of Barcelona and an honorary professorship at the University of Science & Technology, Liaoning, China.

Prizes or Honours

• Geoffrey J Burton Lecturer (Applied Vision Association, UK, 2019)
• Honorary Professor (University of Science & Technology, Liaoning, China, 2014)
• Senior NRC Fellow at NASA Ames, CA. (National Research Council, USA, 2001)

Funded Fellowships