ProfessorAlex Holcombe

Alex and his team investigate how the mind connects with the world, using experiments on perception designed to isolate information bottlenecks in the brain. Alex also does meta-science, investigating how science is done and how that may be made more effective and effiicient.

To help researchers indicate who did what in their scholarly publications, Alex and colleagues created tenzing.club. Alex served on the founding advisory board of what became the world's largest open-access journal (PLOS ONE), and is also involved in the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science and the Free Journal Network.  He is an associate editor of the diamond open-access research reviewing platform Meta-psychology, the Wikimedia Foundation's WikiJournal of Science, and the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science's open-access journal Collabra:Psychology. 

Alex received his PhD in psychology from Harvard University, and a BA in psychology and cognitive science from the University of Viriginia.