Robbe Goris

Robbe Goris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts. He received his Ph.D. from KU Leuven (2009) and completed a postdoc at NYU (advisors Tony Movshon and Eero Simoncelli). He joined UT Austin in 2016. His research focuses on understanding how the primate visual system processes visual information, with emphasis on neural coding, decision-making, and confidence estimation. He employs behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and electrophysiology to study these topics.

Research Interests: Predictive vision (e.g., temporal straightening hypothesis), flexible decision-making under uncertainty, and representation of sensory uncertainty via neural gain variability. His lab investigates these themes through projects like decoding neural trajectories in the visual cortex and studying how uncertainty influences perceptual decisions.

Awards/Grants: NSF-CAREER Award (2022), NIH R01 (2022), and UT Excellence in Postdoctoral Research Award (2023, via lab member Corey Ziemba). His work has been published in high-impact journals like Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, and Neuron.

Lab Members: Includes postdocs (Corey Ziemba, Thomas Langlois), graduate students (Zoe Boundy-Singer, Jiaming Xu, Akash Raj), and lab manager Gabriela Coello-Reyes. Alumni include Julie Charlton (postdoc at Princeton) and Yoon Bai (postdoc at MIT).

Courses Taught: Repeatedly teaches PSY 323 (Perception) and PSY 194Q (Ethical Issues in Psychology), demonstrating academic engagement and pedagogical commitment. Recent course instances span 2020–2025.