Tirta Susilo is an Associate Professor in Psychological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. His research investigates how the human brain processes visual and social information, with a focus on face recognition and its impairment in prosopagnosia (face blindness). He also works on related topics such as object and word recognition, body perception, synaesthesia, autism, and theory of mind. His research draws on methods from experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and vision science, including behavioural experiments, psychophysics, eye tracking, patient studies, and individual differences.

Tirta teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate levels in areas including perception, cognition, neuroscience, and research methods. He has contributed to curriculum development in the MSc in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience programme. He is also an academic advisor for Testable, a platform for online behavioural experiments used by researchers worldwide.

Before joining Victoria University of Wellington, Tirta completed postdoctoral training at Dartmouth College, a PhD at the Australian National University, and undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland and Parahyangan University.