Previous research in spatial cognition
From Summer 2013 to Summer 2019, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Our research was focused on how people think about and move through space, individually and as part of a larger crowd. Here, we used several different virtual reality systems, and I was able to collaborate with people from many different fields, including computer science, architecture, and geography: https://cog.ethz.ch/
As part of this position, I also helped start a new lab on Cognition, Perception, and Behavior in Urban Environments as part of the Future Cities Lab in Singapore: https://fcl.ethz.ch/research/fcl-phase2/responsive-cities/cognition-perception-behaviour.html
From Fall 2017 to Summer 2019, I also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Geographic Information Visualisation and Analysis group at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Our research was focused on how geographic displays influence the manner in which people think about and move through space: https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/giva.html
As part of the project GeoViSense, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the new Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich: https://www.dsi.uzh.ch/en.html
From Fall 2008 to Spring 2013, I completed my Master's and PhD degrees in Psychology at Miami University of Ohio with a focus on Brain & Cognitive Science. My Master's Thesis was focused on different ways of inducing spatial categorical bias in virtual reality. My PhD dissertation was focused on the origin of the (supposed) default categorical structure in spatial memory. As part of a graduate research assistantship, I was also able to work in the Huge Immersive Virtual Environment (HIVE): https://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/psychology/