<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The 2024 Verriest Medal will be awarded to Professor Karl R. <a name="_Hlk146302293">Gegenfurtner </a>at the 27th Symposium of the
International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) to be held in</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> Ljubljana, Slovenia,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">2024</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">. The award was
established in 1991 in memory of the founder of the Society, Dr. Guy Verriest,
and honours outstanding contributions in the field of colour vision.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Professor Gegenfurtner’s distinguished career in colour vision began with
doctoral studies at New York University under the supervision of George
Sperling and John Krauskopf, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at NYU with
Anthony Movshon, and then by appointments at the Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen and Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg.
He took up his present position as Professor of Psychology in the Department of
Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen in 2001.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">His research contributions have ranged exceptionally widely, covering low-level chromatic adaptation and discrimination, through colour constancy and
higher-level cortical mechanisms, all the way to cognitive aspects such as colour
memory, colour categorization, and colour in scene and object recognition. His
work is centred on psychophysics, but he has embraced methodological
innovations, using the power of deep neural networks and the immersive
capabilities of virtual reality. His influential review articles have brought developments
in colour vision to the larger community and his laboratory in Giessen has
provided a welcoming and productive environment for colour vision scientists
from across the world. </span></p>

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