Assistant Teaching Professor
University of Missouri, St. Louis
About Me
I am an assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and was most recently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warsaw. I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of Utah in the Spring of 2023 and work primarily in the Philosophy of Perception, Action, and Cognitive Science. My research includes work on creative automaticity, perceptual expertise, and the interactions of motor control with multisensory perception. In my off time, I love adventuring outdoors: skiing in between trees, climbing up big rocks, and backpacking through the wilderness.
My Research (in a nutshell)
My research investigates how expertise reorganizes perception and supports intelligent, creative action, and how we can distinguish the exercise of developed capacities from the mere appearance of competent performance. I am particularly interested in expertise, perception, and how unconscious processes contribute to the performance of skilled actions. It is my goal to bring both academic and pedagogical attention to the underpinnings of human performance at its very best.