Tom Nissens

Tom Nissens is a postdoctoral researcher at the Justus Liebig-University Giessen in the Experimental Psychology department, affiliated with the Perception and Action research group led by Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler. He previously worked at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as a research assistant and completed his doctoral candidacy at the same university in Giessen.

• Education: M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Psychology from Ghent University, Belgium.

His research focuses on perception and action, particularly how reward and threat signals modulate oculomotor capture and reaching movements. His work explores attentional control, task dependency, and multimodal integration in visual-motor coordination.

Recent publications highlight his contributions to understanding reward-driven behavior (2020), task-dependent distractors (2020), and threat perception (2017). Notably, he investigates how emotional stimuli (e.g., fear) and reward contexts influence eye and hand movement dynamics.