Dr. Thomas D. Albright


Dr. Thomas D. Albright is Professor and Conrad T Prebys Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, where he has served on the faculty since 1986. His laboratory seeks to understand the brain bases of visual perception, memory and visually-guided behavior. Dr. Albright received a PhD in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Albright served as co-chair of the NAS Committee on Scientific Approaches to Eyewitness Identification, which produced the 2014 report Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification. He is a member of the NAS Committee on Science, Technology and Law, and served on the National Commission on Forensic Science, an advisory body to the US Department of Justice. Dr. Albright is currently a member of the Human Factors Resource Committee for the NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science.