Alejandro Lleras is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois and at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where he co-directs the Vision Lab. Alejandro serves as Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence in the College of Liberal Art's and Sciences, he is on the Vision Sciences Society Advisory Board and he is a Governing Board Member and founder of the Spark Society (a society to increase the participation and visibility of scholars from historically-marginalized groups in cognitive psychology and cognitive sciences more generally). He also served in the first Psychonomic Society Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee and has served on several other committees for the Society. He is currently a member of the U.S. National Committee for Psychological Science at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and has previously served as Action Editor at JEP:General and JEP:HPP. Alejandro earned his PhD in Psychology from Penn State University in 2002, under Professor Cathleen Moore. His work was recognized by an NSF Career award. His research interests focus on visual attention and visual awareness. More recently, his work has looked at the mechanisms behind distractor processing in visual search, using a mix of behavioral and computational modeling approaches.

Website: https://publish.illinois.edu/visionlab/

Contact Information:

Alejandro Lleras
Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois
603 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820 USA

Phone: +1 217-265-6709
Email: alleras@illinois.edu