About
Kerry Marsh is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research employs immersive virtual reality techniques to study interpersonal and environmental risk, ecological approaches to perception, and motivational influences on social cognition.
Her work spans social affordances, HIV risk behavior analysis, and interpersonal movement coordination. Marsh directs research through UConn's Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action (CESPA) and maintains affiliations with the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention.
Marsh received appointments as Program Director at NSF (2014-2016) and secured major grants from NSF and NIH for building evacuation research and HIV risk modeling in virtual environments.
