Steve Higgins Ph.D.

Steve Higgins is a Human Factors Engineer supporting the Federal Aviation Administration at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in NJ. Dr. Higgins has over 10 years of basic science and industry work experience, most recently at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Psychology & Beckman Institute, and before that at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. He received his B.A. in Biological Psychology at Temple University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2011. While at the University of Illinois he received numerous fellowships and teaching honors. Dr. Higgins also has over two dozen journal and conference publications. His research interests include visual cognition and its neural correlates, scene and object perception, object localization, canonical views of objects and scenes, spatial navigation, as well as the many applied aspects of psychology.