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Mike
Starrett Ambrose

(“stAIR-it … AM-brohz” | he/him)
Ph.D. Psychology
Postdoc at UC Irvine
m.j.starrett@uci.edu

Cognitive neuroscience of spatial cognition, navigation, learning, memory, and attention. Virtual reality application development and research solutions. Data science and problem solving with programming. Learn more About Me here.

Research Experience

2012 – 2015
Associate Research Specialist (Lab Manager)
Postlab
Principle Investigator: Brad Postle, Ph.D.

2015 – 2021
Graduate Assistant, Research
Human Spatial Cognition Lab
Principle Investigator: Arne Ekstrom, Ph.D.

2021 – Present
Postdoctoral Scholar
UCI Spatial Neuroscience Lab
Principle Investigator: Elizabeth Chrastil, Ph.D.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

MATLAB, R, C#, Python, bash

Software

Unity 3D (SteamVR, VRTK, Landmarks*), MATLAB (EEGlab, Fieldtrip, PsychToolBox), R (various packages), MPlus, SPSS, Git
* Moderated software (github.com/mjstarrett/)

Hardware

EEG (Nexstim, Brain Vision), TMS (Magstim, Nexstim), Head-mounted displays (Oculus DK2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HTC Vive), Omnidirectional treadmills (Cyberith Virtualizer (Elite (2)), KatVR Kat Walk), Eye tracking (Pupil Labs, Tobii Pro)