Prof. Christoph HOELSCHER

Prof Dr Christoph Hoelscher is a professor of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich since 2013. At the Singapore-ETH Centre, he is also a Principal Investigator in the Future Health Technologies programme, programme director of the Future Resilent Systems programme - the second programme at the centre and a principal investigator in Future Cities Laboratory. He was previously assistant and extra-curricular professor at the Center for Cognitive Science in the University of Freiburg, Germany. He received his Doctorate (2000) and Habilitation (2009) in Psychology at the University of Freiburg. He was project manager in IT industry during 2000-2003, specialising in user-adaptive systems and usability.

Visiting positions

• University College London, honorary senior research fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture / Space Syntax group (since 2007)
• Visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara, departments of Geography and Psychology (2011 & 2012)
• Visiting researcher and project manager at University of Freiburg / SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition (2013-2014)

Service roles

• Governing board Cognitive Science Society (since 2012)
• Board of directors SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition (2007-2012)
• Co-chair of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2011, Boston)
• Co-chair of Spatial Cognition International Conference (2010, Mt. Hood, OR)