My name is Jessica N. and I am from a small town called Hayfork in Northern California. As my name suggests I am of Swedish heritage, and that was my driving inspiration to live and study in Sweden. This is not my first long term stay in Sweden, in fact I was an exchange student at Örebro University in 2004. In the 5 months of my exchange program I fell in love with the country, people, educational system, and someone who is very special to me.

After graduating from San Diego State University last fall, I de-cided to look into possibilities to further my education in Sweden. Uppsala University has a wonderful Masters of Science program in Molecular Cell Biology taught in English that fit perfectly into my study path, the University agreed and accepted me for the Fall term. The program will last for two years and after completion there the possibility to continue on with a Doctorate Program.

I am sincerely honored to be a recipient of the AWC in Stockholm Scholarship. I hail from New York City, where in May I graduated with my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology: Cognition and Perception from New York University (NYU). Previous to my doctoral studies, I completed my Master's degree in the same field at NYU, and my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at Columbia University. Currently I am a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, and Karolinska Institutet.

I am interested in the interaction between visual technologies and the human visual system. Concurrent with my university studies, I was especially fortunate to receive training and support from NASA, The Universities Space Research Association, and The Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science in the United States. With these organizations, I developed a method to