13 Facts About Tom Troscianko

Tom Troscianko studied Physics at the University of Manchester and a subsequent job with Kodak led to a PhD in optometry and visual science at City University, London.

In 1970, after leaving school, Tom worked for British Steel as a lab technician before taking a degree in Physics at The University of Manchester.

Tom Troscianko became a lecturer at the University of Bristol in 1991 and spent most of the rest of his career there.

Tom Troscianko taught and coordinated undergraduate and postgraduate courses on perception, psychobiology, the ecology of vision, current vision, and the psychology of climate change, and supervised or co-supervised 17 PhD candidates.

Tom Troscianko worked at the IBM UK Scientific Centre in Winchester and in 2000 briefly held a chair at the University of Essex.

Tom Troscianko was Principal Investigator on research grants from funders including the MRC, the BBSRC, and the EPSRC, and was a member of EPSRC Peer Review College.

For some years Tom Troscianko lived on his narrowboat, Lancer, in the floating harbour in Bristol, opposite the quay where the replica of The Matthew was being built.

Tom Troscianko was particularly interested in the spatial and spectral properties of natural scenes in relation to the properties of biological systems, and in studying these interactions in species other than humans, in natural environments from the African rain-forest to Bristol's Leigh Woods.

Tom Troscianko was involved in attempts to create a conscious robot with Iain Gilchrist and Owen Holland.

Tom Troscianko was chief editor of the journal Perception for nearly 20 years, and the driving force behind the launch of its open-access sister journal i-Perception.

Tom Troscianko was associate editor of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception from 2004 until his death, and was long involved in the Applied Vision Association, becoming its secretary in 2003.

Tom Troscianko was renowned for never taking the easy route to conferences but turning each trip into an adventure that might involve cars, trains, skis, his camper van, motorbike, and especially boats.

Tom Troscianko died of heart failure on 16 November 2011 in Amsterdam, on his way to give lectures in Germany.