Dr. Scott Galster

Dr. Scott Galster is the Chief of the Applied Neuroscience Branch, Warfighter Interface Division, Human Effectiveness Directorate, 711 Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Dr. Galster is accountable for strategic planning, development, execution and reporting of a diverse body of research and development efforts examining the applied neuroscience aspects of decision making and performance spanning the identification of genetic factors influencing stress responses to increasing distributed team performance. Dr. Galster is the founder of the Sense-Assess-Augment paradigm used across the DoD to sense operator state, assess that state relative to performance, and provide focused and personalized augmentations to assure mission success. Dr. Galster holds a Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is the recipient of a NASA fellowship award, the Paul Fitts Engineering award, and the International Program award for Human Effectiveness. Dr Galster is also an Adjunct Professor, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Neuroscience and the College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Department at the Ohio State University.