Jeremy Wolfe is Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of the Visual Attention Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Wolfe received an AB in Psychology in 1977 from Princeton and his PhD in Psychology in 1981 from MIT. His research focuses on visual search and visual attention with a particular interest in socially important search tasks in areas such as medical image perception (e.g. cancer screening), security (e.g. baggage screening), and intelligence. His lab has been funded since 1982 by NIH (NEI, NIMH, NCI), NSF, AFOSR (Air Force), ONR (Navy), ARO (Army), Homeland Security, and the Nat. Geospatial Agency as well as by IBM, Google, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, & GE. Wolfe taught Intro. Psychology and other courses for 25 years, mostly at MIT. He has served as Past President or Chair of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), Psychonomic Society, APA Division 3, Eastern Psychological Association, NAS Panel on Soldier Systems. He has served on the Governing Boards of the Vision Sciences Society and APA Divisions 1 and 6. Wolfe was Founding Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI), the newest Psychonomic Society journal, and Past-Editor of Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Wolfe also serves on the Board of the North American Board of the Union for Reform Judaism. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

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Dr. Jeremy M. Wolfe
Visual Attention Lab
Department of Surgery
Brigham & Women's Hospital
65 Landsdowne St
4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Phone: +1 617-768-8818
Email: jwolfe@partners.org