Jan Drewes

Jan Drewes is a current Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Physics of Psychological Processes Group within the Institute of Physics at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. His work bridges physics and experimental psychology, focusing on visual perception, eye tracking, and natural image statistics.

• PhD, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (2006), thesis: Classification of Natural Scenes
• Diploma, Universität zu Lübeck (2003), thesis: Prediction of Saccadic Eye Movements with Dynamic Scenes

His research explores how humans process visual information, including topics like object recognition, eye movement dynamics, and the statistical properties of natural scenes. He has developed methods to analyze gaze drift due to pupil dynamics and investigated neural mechanisms in shape and orientation perception.

Recent publications (2010–2016) highlight his focus on rapid visual categorization, animal detection in natural scenes, and EEG-oculomotor interactions. Key areas include non-retinotopic perception, recurrent neural processing, and behavioral oscillations during visual tasks.

He has collaborated with institutions in Germany, Italy, Canada, France, and China, including York University, Trento University, and CNRS Toulouse, while affiliating with research groups like the Melcher Active Perception Group and Elder Lab.