معرفی
Alex Baldwin is an Assistant Professor at McGill University within the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences. He serves as a Junior Scientist in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.
- Supervisor in McGill's Integrated Program in Neuroscience (IPN)
- Supervisor in Quantitative Life Sciences program
- Laboratory located at Montreal General Hospital
Research focuses span computational neuroscience, visual psychophysics, and binocular vision mechanisms, particularly examining:
- Amblyopia and spatial scrambling
- Aging-related changes in stereopsis
- Visual noise adaptation
- Contrast summation models
- Contour integration processes
- Digital therapeutic development
His lab employs Matlab/Octave (Psychtoolbox), Python (PsychoPy), and Unity/C# for experimental design, with Python (Jupyter) and Matlab (Palamedes Toolbox) for data analysis. Collaborations include Wenzhou Medical University.
Scientific recognition includes:
- NSERC Discovery Grant (2022-2027)
- HBHL Ignite Funding
- FRQ-S Vision Health Research Network Pilot
Training opportunities available for undergraduate (PSYC-396/COGS-444/COGS-401) and graduate students, with current advisees working on topics including:
- Visual snow syndrome neural mechanisms
- Binocular imbalance in aging
- Contour integration modeling
- Adaptive strategies in amblyopia
- Dichoptic ebook therapy development
