Richard Skarbez is a Lecturer in Interactive Visualization in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2016, he completed his dissertation, “Plausibility Illusion in Virtual Environments” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the supervision of Professors Fred Brooks and Mary Whitton.

His research interests broadly refer to how humans experience and interact with immersive technologies, and specifically include virtual reality, human factors, user experience design, visualisation, and immersive analytics.