dominic.standage.net

DS 2007.05.09 - Welcome to dominic.standage.net. Here, you'll find my CV, a list of publications and a brief biography below.

Biography

DS 2010.02.10 - I'm a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Canada, where I work with Mike Dorris at the Department of Physiology. I completed my PhD at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada, in August 2007, where I was a member of the Computational Neuroscience Group with Thomas Trappenberg. Most generally, I'm interested in cortical and hippocampal function. I pursue these interests through the study of decision-making, attention, and memory.

A little personal history. I finished a BA, Psychology at Dal way back in 1991, where I was a varsity volleyball player for a while. I finished an MSc, Artifical Intelligence at the University of Westminster in 2001. Along the way, I worked as a software developer for eight years in the UK, having spent too much of my early twenties at tree planting camps in northern Canada, travelling between summers. My dominant memory from this period is wanting to be somewhere more comfortable. These days, I'm usually shovelling snow or cutting grass in my spare time, depending on the season, as well as coaching soccer (all seasons).

I've got three kids, Henry, Madeleine and Theodore, and my wife's name is Selina. They're very nice people. Henry's a soccer star in the mould of a young Zidane, or perhaps his favourite player, English phenom Wayne Rooney. He plays for Kingston's Cataraqui Clippers in Ontario's East Regional Soccer League. Henry's also an upstanding citizen. Madeleine counts painting, soccer, acting and animals among her areas of expertise. She's very well socialised. Maddy plays soccer with the Clippers U9 girls team, which I coach. Theo's very young, born March 7, 2011. He's quite serious much of the time, but he has a lovely smile. Selina's a successful web designer, a former pop star of sorts, a graduate of the London College of Fashion and has an unrivalled and infectious pop sensibility. Like me, Sel works at Queen's. She's a web guru at the Faculty of Education.