David H. Brainard

In 1991 he was hired as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 1999. In 2001 he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of psychology. From 2005 to 2010, he served as the chair of the department of psychology.^[1] In 2014, he received an endowed professorship, becoming the first recipient of the RRL Professor of Psychology.^[5] As of 2021, he is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Vision Science.^[6]

Brainard researches visual perception, visual neuroscience, and visual processing. He is interested in how vision allows perception about an object's properties, especially color.^[7]

He is an elected fellow of The Optical Society, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the Association for Psychological Science.^[3][8] In 2021 The Optical Society awarded him the Edgar D. Tillyer Award for his "groundbreaking experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of how the visual system resolves the ambiguities inherent in sensory signals to produce a stable percept of object color".^[3]