Communicator Award 2022 for Dr. Kate Storrs
Kate Storrs receives the Communicator Award from the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior
Kate Storrs is a postdoctoral researcher in visual perception at Justus Liebig University Giessen and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. She is currently working with Professor Roland Fleming, using "deep learning" artificial intelligence systems to understand how the human brain processes visual information. Before coming to Giessen, Kate worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Cambridge (UK) on computational models for human object recognition, as a data scientist at Twitter in London, and did a PhD on human visual perception in Brisbane, Australia. Kate has a passion for public science communication and has presented stand-up comedy and public talks on science on stage at bars, festivals and theatres, appeared on podcasts and radio, and been interviewed on local television. She will soon open her own lab at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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