Alejandro Lleras received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia until 2004. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Human Perception and Performance group. His main areas of interest are on visual awareness, visual attention, vision for action, and high-level constraints on visual perception.
Honors: NSF Researcher Starter Grant (2005); Dean of Arts Travel Award, University of British Columbia (2004); NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2003); Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002); William L. and Josephine Berry Weiss Graduate Scholarship (2001-2002); Bruce V. Moore Graduate Fellowship (2001); Eileen Wirtshafter Leibowitz and Herschel W. Leibowitz Scholarship (2000, 2001); College of the Liberal Arts Travel Grant, Pennsylvania State University (2001).
