Don Donderi, PhD – 2013 MUFON Symposium

THE UFO AND ABDUCTION EVIDENCE SHOULD REORIENT SCIENCE AND CHANGE PUBLIC POLICY

DON DONDERI, PhD is a retired Associate Professor of Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, and a former Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at McGill.

He is also the co-founder and Principal Consultant of a Toronto-based human factors and ergonomics consulting firm. Donderi earned his undergraduate degrees (B.A. and B. Sc.) from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Cornell University. While a graduate student at Cornell, he worked for IBM to develop radar navigation displays for the B-52 bomber.

His basic research interests are in human memory, perception and thinking, and his applied work has included projects in marine navigation, naval architecture, nuclear power plant operation, agricultural inspection, computer interface design, and aviation human factors. He is the co-author of a psychology textbook, editor of a second textbook, author of over one hundred research papers and technical reports; and most recently, of UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions: A Scientist Looks at the Evidence (Hampton Roads Press, 2013).