Profiles

Grayden Solman received his PhD in June 2012 and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Alan Kingstone. Grayden is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Grayden's work focuses on understanding visual exploration as it occurs under naturalistic conditions. For an informative video view Grayden's talk from a 2012 interview on the Daily Planet.

Jeremy is interested in the way people experience the spectrum of attentional states, from mindlessness to deep concentration, focusing mainly on mind-wandering and the experience of flow.

Lydia is broadly interested in the factors that diminish or improve our attention. Her master’s thesis examined the replicability and generalizability of foundational research in the environmental psychology literature.

Dr. Paul Seli received his PhD from the University of Waterloo (under Dr. Smilek's supervision) in July 2015. For his outstanding dissertation and graduate career, Paul received the coveted Governor General's Gold Medal. Paul was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, working under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Schacter and funded by an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Paul is currently an Assistant Professor at Duke University, and his research focuses on mind wandering and attention lapses.

Email Paul: pseli@uwaterloo.ca