Dr Denis Drieghe BSc, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor, Erasmus and Exchange Coordinator

Denis Drieghe joined the Psychology department of the University of Southampton in 2009. He is an Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology, and his research involves recording eye movements to examine cognitive processing during reading.
He received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Ghent University in Belgium working with Marc Brysbaert where he also obtained his BSc and MSc (named 'licenciaat' at the time). He obtained consecutive positions as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders for a total of 5 years. During his time in Ghent, he also obtained multiple grants to go abroad for research visits. Spread over three separate visits, he spent a total of 2.5 years working with Keith Rayner and Sandy Pollatsek at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA (USA). He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton working with Simon Liversedge before taking on a lectureship in the Psychology department in 2010.
Denis is an Associate Editor for Behavior Research Methods (since 2020) and Psychologica Belgica (since 2014). His research has been funded by the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders, the Leverhulme Trust, the Experimental Psychological Society and the Australian Research Council.