Presenter

Prof. Dr. Stefan van der Stigchel is professor of Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University. He heads the AttentionLab research group that examines how attention and visual awareness work together to create our perception of the world. He is an author of the popular science books ‘How attention works’ and ‘Concentration’, internationally published by MIT Press. He is currently director of the Helmholtz Institute and president of the Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition.