Mary Hayhoe is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas Austin. She received her PhD from UC San Diego and served on the faculty at the Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester (1984 – 2005) and University of Texas at Austin (2006 – present). She has been a pioneer in developing virtual environments and experimental paradigms for the investigation of natural visually guided behavior. She developed a Virtual Reality laboratory, initially at the University of Rochester and then at UT Austin using eye and body tracking technology. She was on the Board of the Vision Sciences Society and was President in 2014-2015. She has been an editor of the Journal of Vision since 2010, and is on the NIH CP Study Section panel, having also served on the Vis B Study section in 1994-1998. She is the recipient of the Davida Teller Award in 2017 for outstanding contributions to vision research. She is also the PI on an NIH Training Grant to the Center for Perceptual Systems at UT and has trained numerous graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
Mary Hayhoe is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas Austin. She received her PhD from UC San Diego and served on the faculty at the Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester (1984 – 2005) and University of Texas at Austin (2006 – present). She has been a pioneer in developing virtual environments and experimental paradigms for the investigation of natural visually guided behavior. She developed a Virtual Reality laboratory, initially at the University of Rochester and then at UT Austin using eye and body tracking technology. She was on the Board of the Vision Sciences Society and was President in 2014-2015. She has been an editor of the Journal of Vision since 2010, and is on the NIH CP Study Section panel, having also served on the Vis B Study section in 1994-1998. She is the recipient of the Davida Teller Award in 2017 for outstanding contributions to vision research. She is also the PI on an NIH Training Grant to the Center for Perceptual Systems at UT and has trained numerous graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.