CV - Dr. Alexander Goettker

2020 – now	Postdoctoral researcher Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
2019-2020	Research Intern and Contingent worker with Meta Reality Labs Redmond, Washington
2016-2020	Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.) Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Supervisor: Karl Gegenfurtner
2017	Lab Visit at VU Amsterdam Amsterdam Movement Sciences visiting Eli Brenner
2015 & 2017	Lab Visits at Queens University Kingston Computational Sensorimotor Lab visiting Gunnar Blohm
2011- 2016	B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Psychology Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.

Past and ongoing Collaborations

Doris Braun and Alexander Schütz and on the interaction of saccadic and pursuit eye movements
Katja Fiehler and Dimitris Voudouris on action control to somatosensory targets
Gunnar Blohm on reach control and tDCS
Eli Brenner and Cristina de la Malla on interception movements
Katja Doerschner on the effects of expectations about material properties on eye movements
Jutta Billino on interactions between eye movements and memory in aging
Emma Stewart on sequential effects in oculomotor behavior
Shannon Locke and Pascal Mamassian on sensorimotor confidence for eye movements
Ben de Haas on individual differences in eye movement control

2021-2023

“To see or not to see – Quantifying visual perception during eye movements”
Meta Reality Labs
Role: PI

Best Phd Thesis award from the German Psychological Society
Distinguished paper award for “Differences between oculomotor and perceptual artifacts for temporally limited head mounted displays” at SID

Goettker, A., & Stewart, E.E.M. (2022). Serial dependence for oculomotor control depends on early sensory signals. Current Biology, 32(13), 2956-2961.
Goettker, A., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2021). A change in perspective: The interaction of saccadic and pursuit eye movements in oculomotor control and perception. Vision Research, 188, 283-296.
Goettker, A., Pidaparthy, H., Braun, D. I., Elder, J. H., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2021). Ice hockey spectators use contextual cues to guide predictive eye movements. Current Biology, 31(16), R991-R992.
Goettker, A. (2021). Retinal error signals and fluctuations in eye velocity influence oculomotor behavior in subsequent trials. Journal of Vision, 21(5), 28-28.
Goettker, A., MacKenzie, KJ, Murdison, TS. (2020). Differences between oculomotor and perceptual artifacts for temporally limited head mounted displays. J Soc Inf Display. 1-11.
Goettker, A., Braun, D. I., Schütz, A. C., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2018). Execution of saccadic eye movements affects speed perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201704799.

All Publications can be found here.

Patents

Display Artifact Reduction
(A Goettker, TS Murdison, KJ MacKenzie, L Seiler), US Patent

Science Communication