Eileen Kowler

Professional Bio:

Eileen Kowler is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, and Associate Dean in the Graduate School.  Her research is in the areas of perception, attention and motor control.  Kowler has been active in creating and implementing new educational activities for graduate students, including enrichment activities and opportunities for interdisciplinary training, particularly in areas that combine psychology and computer science.  She is PI of the Rutgers IGERT, and co-PI of the REU site in Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science, as well as coPI of the Rutgers I3, which is focused on graduate education and graduate/undergraduate integration.

Eileen Kowler received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Maryland in 1978, and joined the Psychology faculty at Rutgers in 1980 after postdoctoral work at New York University. She is also a member of the graduate faculty of Biomedical Engineering and is on the Executive Committee of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. She edited the reference work Eye Movements and Their Role in Visual and Cognitive Processes (published by Elsevier), and served as Section Editor for Behavioral Physiology and Visuomotor Control of the journal Vision Research from 1995 to 2004. She has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Vision and Cognitive Brain Research. Her laboratory has been supported by grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and NIH.