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Curriculum vitae Prof. Thomas S. A. Wallis, PhD

  • Education

    2010 Doctorate (supervisor: Prof. Derek H. Arnold), School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia
    2001-2004 Degree Programme: Bachelor of Psychological Science, The University of Queensland, Australia

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2021-current W3 Professor of Perception, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2019-2021 Senior Research Scientist, Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH
    2017-2018 Acting Professor (W3), Information, University of Tübingen, Germany
    2013-2016 Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tübingen, Germany
    2010-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2021-current Member of the faculty council for the Department of Human Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt
    2021-current Internationalisation officer, Department of Human Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt

  • Commissions of Trust

    2023-current Editorial board member, Journal of Vision
    2016 Co-organiser of a workshop for early career vision scientists ‘‘What have vision scientists learned in the past five years?’’, Cambridge, UK

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2023-2028 ERC Consolidator Grant 'SEGMENT'
    2022 Networking grant for communication between partner states, Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts
    2018 Teaching award from the Graduate Training Centre for Neuroscience, University of Tübingen. Awarded by students for ‘‘Psychophysics and Non-invasive Methods’’
    2017-2020 Collaborative Research Centre (DFG) 1233 “Robust Vision”
    2013-2016 Humboldt Research Fellowship
    2013 Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (declined)
    2010 National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Postgraduate training award
    2008 Postgraduate Student Research Excellence Award, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
    2008 Australian Experimental Psychology Conference Student Award
    2008 Selected to attend the European Visual Neuroscience Summer School, Rauischolzhausen, Germany
    2004 University Medal for undergraduate degree (awarded to the top 1% of UQ graduates annually). Equivalent to Summa Cum Laude.

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