Biomotion Lab 09 Biomotion Lab, Queen's University 2009

Biomotion Lab 03 Biomotion Lab, Ruhr-University 2003


Alumni and Past Members

  • Daniel Saunders
  • Daniel worked in the biomotionlab from 2005 until 2011. A graduate student in the BBCS program he first finished his MSc degree and later his PhD degree. His work was concerned with the studies aiming to break the complex phenomenology of biological motion perception down into its constituting components. Dr. Saunders now works as post-doctoral fellow at the Schepens Eye Research Institute at Harvard Medical School.
  • Masahiro Hirai
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciene (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad (2009 to 2011). Interested in the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of biological motion.
  • Emma Ware
  • Graduate student. Received PhD in 2011. Emma had studied the dynamics of pigeon courtship behaviour as a means to understand the role of the partner's responsiveness to ones own behaviour.
  • Morgan Davies
  • Honours Thesis (2011)
  • Stephanie Lau
  • Honours Thesis (2011)
  • Dorita Chang
  • Graduate Student (2006 - 2010). Dorita worked on characterizing the local invariants which convey direction and animacy in biological motion. She is now a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow with Andrew Welchman and Zoe Kourtzi at the University of Birmingham, UK.
  • Will Jenden
  • Summer Student (2010). Will helped us to design, and then construct hardware and software for a virtual reality setup that we will be using to study visual behaviour in pigeons.
  • Peter Hamilton
  • NSERC Summer Student (2010) was involved in a number of different programming projects. Particularly, he laid the groundwork for a facebook application featuring tools to generate new point light walkers.
  • Matt McAdam
  • Honours Thesis: "Predictors of Perceptual Biases and Perceptual Stability in Rotating Depth-Ambiguous Figures" (2009-2010).
  • Irina Skvortsova
  • Lab Manager/CG Artist (2008-2009).
  • Minyan Wang
  • Summer student (2009).
  • Carolyn Lamb
  • NSERC Summer Studen (2009).
  • Qian Xiao
  • Postdoctoral Fellow studying the neuronal properties and circuits underlying the visual information procession, especially the 3D motion perception in pigeons (2008-2009).
  • David Williamson
  • Honours Thesis: "Task Differentiated Eye Movements in Response to Point Light Walkers" (2008-2009).
  • Sara Caird
  • NSERC summer student, training pigeons for Skinner box experiments (2008).
  • Shawn Leclair
  • Lab Manager (2007-2008).
  • Anna Halevina
  • Masters Thesis: "Sex classification of point-light walkers: Viewpoint, structure, kinematics" (2005-2007).
  • Ameya Mhatre
  • Lab Manager (2006-2007).
  • Meghan Provost
  • PhD Thesis: "Differences in gait across the menstrual cycle" (2005-2007).
  • Adriana Olmos
  • Postdoctoral fellow and Lab Manager (2005-2006).
  • Paul Parsons
  • NSERC summer student, programming work towards social virtual reality (2006).
  • Shilpa Mody
  • Summer student (2006).
  • Sandra Szabo
  • Honours Thesis (2005-2006).
  • Jessica Chan
  • Honours Thesis (2005-2006).
  • Cord Westhoff
  • PhD Thesis: "Person identification from biological motion" (2002-2005). He is now a manager at Electronic Arts (EA)
  • Laura Jimenez-Ortega
  • PhD Thesis: "Head-bobbing in pigeons" (2002-2005). She is now faculty at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
  • Thomas Nathaniel
  • PhD Thesis: Motor control in pigeons (2003-2005).
  • Daniel Jokisch
  • Did a Masters Thesis and later his PhD Thesis in the BioMotionLab at Ruhr-University in Bochum. He then moved as a postdoctoral fellow to the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging in Nijmegen. He is now back at Ruhr-University (1999-2004).
  • Tobias Otto
  • LLab technician both at Ruhr University and Queen's University (2002-2005). He is now working as a research technician at another lab at Ruhr-University.
  • Patrick Vollmar
  • Masters Thesis: "Effects of induced emotion on human gait patterns" (2004-2005). Currently a doctoral student in Physiology at Ruhr University, Bochum.
  • Andrej König
  • Masters Thesis: "Sex-specific development of locomotion patterns in children and adolescents" (2002-2003). He is now a doctoral student at Ruhr-University Bochum.
  • Zonghua Zhang
  • Postdoctoral fellow (2003 - 2004). He is currently a Research Associate at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh.