Lily M. Turkstra(she/her)

Lily M. Turkstra(she/her)

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Lily Turkstra is a Junior Specialist and lab manager in the Bionic Vision Lab at UC Santa Barbara. She has extensive research experience with human psychophysics, has worked with clinical populations, and is well versed in statistical software analysis and programming. Lily was previously a behavioral interventions therapist at California PsychCare/Behavioral Health 360, where she used a combination of speech, occupational, and play therapies to create and employ therapeutic plans for individuals with autism. Most recently, she has been a Software Quality Assurance specialist at Boeing,and a Behavioral Health and Performance Intern at NASA, where she studied the effects of space on astronauts' cognition, behavior, and performance. Starting Fall ‘23, she will be a PhD student in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara.

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