- Peter Veto
Peter Veto (August 2015 – August 2016): Peter is a PhD student who came from Marburg, Germany, and went to Chemnitz, Germany. In between, he spent a year in the BioMotion Lab. Peter is involved with the International Graduate School “The Brain in Action”. Like Seamas Weech and Fabian Helm, he has two supervisors – one in Germany and one in Canada. - Leslie M. Theunissen
Postdoctoral fellow, investigated the sensory control and the functional role of movements in birds and in humans using motion capture techniques and real-time virtual realities. - Tom Lisney
Postdoctoral fellow, worked on the sensory control of head-bobbing and walking in pigeons. (2013-2014) - Madelaine Baetz-Dougan
Completed BSc Hons. in Biology and Psychology. Madelaine wrote an undergraduate thesis in the lab concerning decision-making under risk in pigeons. Also worked in the lab as an NSERC summer student award recipient. (2013-2014) - Susan Tian
BSc Hons. in Psychology. Worked on the visual perception of ambiguous stimuli as a research assistant and thesis student. (2013-2014) - Amin Nikdel
Biomedical Computing student. Worked in the BML as a developer / research assistant. (2013) - Morgann Reid
Lab manager. (2013) - Meghan Collett
M.Sc. in Psychology. Co-supervised by Niko Troje and Lola Cuddy. (2011-2013) - Andres Kroker
M.Sc. in Biology. Interested in sensory-motor control of posture and locomotion in pigeons. (2011-2013) - Yaroslav Konar
Postdoctoral researcher, worked on applying biological motion perception tests to new populations (e.g., autistic individuals, children, older adults). (2011-2013) - Adam Heenan
Adam Heenan completed his PhD dissertation at the BioMotion Lab. He researched perceptual biases with a clinical focus. He since worked as a clinical psychology resident in The Ottawa Hospital. (2010-2014) - Stephen Scovil
Lab Technician. (2007-2013) - Kevin Birk
NSERC Summer student working in 3D graphics and researching optic flow algorithms.
Stayed in the lab to complete an undergraduate research project. (2013) - Daniel Chambers
Worked on an undergraduate honours thesis examining the facing-the-viewer
bias in point light walkers and silhouettes. (2013) - Alexandra Wall
Undergraduate honours thesis student looking at mirror image
discrimination and biological motion in pigeons. (2013) - Giles Holland
Research Associate. - Kate Bobyn
Honours Thesis (2012). Studied visual-vestibular integration in avian locomotion. - Daniel Warner
Honours Thesis (2012) - Katherine Moir
Honours Thesis (2012) - Brenna Douglas
Graduate student in Computing. Studied motion and facial perception. (2010-2011) - 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
Lab 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.