Thomas Papathomas, Ph.D, came from Greece after high school and graduated from Columbia University. He is the director of the Laboratory of Vision Research, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and serves as the Busch Campus Dean at Rutgers University.
His scientific expertise is in brain research on perception, in particular vision and audition. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and serves on the editorial board for International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. Papathomas has 102 scientific publications and is the editor-in-chief of Early Vision and Beyond; a volume of interdisciplinary research in psychophysics, neurophysiology, and computational vision. Papathomas has designed several exhibits for science museums such as the New York Arts Biennial in 1997. His research was featured on the National Public Radio and the Scientific American special edition on perception.
He is most proud of the graduate and undergraduate students that he has been working with. He is equally proud of his family: his wife is the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company and both his daughter and his son are Rutgers alumni.