Fred W. Mast is a full professor of Psychology at the University of Bern in Switzerland, specialized in mental imagery, sensorimotor processing, and visual perception. He directs the "Cognitive Psychology, Perception, and Research Methods Section" at the Department of Psychology of the University of Bern.
Early life and education.
Fred Mast was born and raised in Wil (Eastern Switzerland) and studied Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurophysiology at the University of Zurich where he also obtained his PhD in 1995 working with Professor . He taught Perception, Cognition, Psychophysics, and Neuroscience at the University of Zurich and at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). In 1998 he moved to the US and became a research associate at the Department of Psychology at Harvard University working with Professor Stephen Kosslyn and had a part-time appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 
He returned to Switzerland in 2002 to join the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich and obtained his Habilitation ("venia legendi") a year later. In 2005 he became a full professor for Cognitive Psychology at the University of Lausanne (2005-2008). He was also the responsible coordinator for Cognitive Psychology teaching at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2008, he is a full professor of Psychology at the University of Bern. He was Head of Department (2012-2014), Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences (2015-2017), and currently co-directing with Professor Claudio Bassetti the Interfaculty Research Cooperation „Decoding Sleep“.
Fred Mast is married and has two sons. The family lives in Pully.
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