Jac Billington received the Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 2007. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Royal Holloway, University of London, for six years. She is currently an Associate Professor in psychology with the University of Leeds. Her research interests include understanding how people extract information from the surrounding environment for the purpose of voluntary action and successful self-motion. She is particularly interested in the neuroscientific underpinnings of such behaviors.