Frans Verstraten
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Frans Verstraten (Langenboom, The Netherlands) is a Dutch Experimental Psychologist at the University of Sydney.
Biography[edit]
After finishing high school (Elzendaalcollege in Boxmeer), Verstraten studied Experimental Psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and received a PhD (cum laude) from Utrecht University in 1994. He had post-doctoral positions at McGill University, Harvard University and at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) near Kyoto in Japan. In 1997 he received a 3-year research fellowship from the Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW). While spending a year at the University of Toronto, he was appointed professor in Cognitive and Theoretical Psychology in November 1999 at Utrecht University. He served as Head of Department from 2001 until 2010 and was the Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Institute at the same university until 2012.
In 2012 Verstraten moved to the University of Sydney, where he holds the McCaughey Chair of Psychology. He was the Head of School of Psychology from January 2013 for 10 years.
Scientific Contributions[edit]
Verstraten's interest is the human visual system, in particular the perception of movement. He has a special interest in how the visual system adapts to (fast) changing environmental conditions. With his graduate students he also explored aspects of binocular vision, the role of attention on visual processing, time perception, motor-adaptation, the role of gestures, search & eye-movements, and recently the role of new technology, in particular virtual reality, for mental health related assessments. Verstraten has successfully supervised 20 PhD students.
Distinctions (selection)[edit]
- 1995 Recipient Dissertation award by the Dutch Psychonomic Society..[1].
- 2002 Recipient Pionier Grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
- Recipient Teaching Excellence Award 2007-2008; 2004-2005; 2002-2003 – Psychology. Utrecht University.
- 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales[2] (FRSN).
- 2021 Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia[3](FASSA).
Lecturing and public engagement[edit]
Verstraten is active in popularising science, in particular the Psychological Sciences. He was a regular on Dutch TV, e.g. as one of the expert scientists in the popular science Quiz Hoe?Zo! (which translates to How? So!) and was columnist for several magazines and national newspaper de Volkskrant. He was elected 3 times lecturer of the year by the students of psychology.
Roles (selection)[edit]
- 2012 - 2022: Member of the Niels Stensen Fellowship Committee[4].
- 2013 - 2014: President Vision Sciences Society[5]
- 2010 - 2015: Board of Directors Vision Sciences Society[6]
Bibliography (selection)[edit]
- Philipse, H., Haring, B., Frans Verstraten, F., & Wagenaar, W.(2020). Psychologie / Psychology. The Hague: Home Academy.
- Frans Verstraten (2011). De wereld van onze psyche / The world of our psyche. The Hague: Home Academy.
- Frank Wijnen & Frans Verstraten [Eds.] (2009, 4th edition, 2nd printing). Het brein te kijk: een verkenning van de cognitieve neurowetenschappen / Exposing the brain: an exploration of the cognitive neurosciences. Londen: Pearson.
- Frans Verstraten (2006, 3rd printing). Psychologie in een Notendop / Psychology in a nutshell. Amsterdam: Prometeus.
- George Mather, Frans Verstraten & Stuart Anstis [eds.] (1998). The Motion Aftereffect: A modern perspective. Cambridge: MIT-press.
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