In the lab, Alex studies how humans perceive and process visual signals over time. Outside of the lab, he has worked to advance the adoption of open science, team science, and policies to increase replication and scientific rigor. He is an associate editor at the journal Meta-Psychology and he co-founded the Registered Replication Report article format at Perspectives on Psychological Science in 2014, co-founded the Association for Psychological Science journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science in 2018, and served on the founding advisory boards of the preprint server PsyArxiv and the journal PLOS ONE.