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Jeroen J. A. van Boxtel serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University, a position he has held since joining the institution in October 2013. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at both UCLA and the California Institute of Technology. His academic journey began with research at Utrecht University on topics such as binocular rivalry and motion perception. Van Boxtel obtained his PhD in 2008 from Utrecht University, an MSc in Biology from the same university, and an MA in Cognitive Sciences from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Collège de France in Paris, following undergraduate and graduate studies in the Netherlands and France.

The van Boxtel Lab, situated in the School of Psychological Sciences, investigates three primary research questions: the interaction between attention and consciousness, the influence of individual traits on biological motion perception, and individual differences in automatic pre-attentive processing. As Head of Cognitive Neuroimaging at Monash Biomedical Imaging, van Boxtel has focused on the negative effects of attention, the linkage between attention and conscious perception, biological motion, and related areas including autism spectrum disorders. His prolific publication record features influential works such as "Consciousness and attention: on sufficiency and necessity" in Frontiers in Psychology (2010), "Multisensory congruency as a mechanism for attentional control over perceptual selection" in Journal of Neuroscience (2009), "A predictive coding perspective on autism spectrum disorders" in Frontiers in Psychology (2013), "Depth perception by the active observer" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2005), and "Opposing effects of attention and consciousness on afterimages" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010). Recent contributions include "Stochastic resonance in the sensory systems and its applications in neural prosthetics" in Clinical Neurophysiology (2024) and "High neural noise in autism: A hypothesis currently at the nexus of explanatory power" in Heliyon (2024). With 56 research outputs comprising 45 articles, 4 letters, 4 review articles, and 2 book chapters, his work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being.