Panos MAVROS ☕️
Panos MAVROS

Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor

Télécom Paris
Institut Polytechnique de Paris

I am an Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology, Design and Digital Technologies (Ergonomie, Design et Numerique) at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

My research and teaching focus on how people interact with their environments, physical or digital, urban or virtual.

We have various openings for student projects, so if you are interested, do get in touch

This website contains a short bio and various parts of my work, such as blog posts, talks, presentations, and various tools and resources related to teaching and research.

Interests
  • Spatial Cognition, Wayfinding, Navigation
  • Quantitative methods for User Experience Research
  • Digital urban planning, Architectural Cognition
Education

  • PhD Advanced Spatial Analysis and Environmental Psychophysiology

    University College London, UK

My Research

I apply a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to comprehensively investigate how people interact with their physical and digital environment and the influence of technology on those interactions.

Recent Publications
Marie Simonet, Christian Vater, Cecile Abati, Sailin Zhong, Panos MAVROS, Angela Schwering, Raubal Martin, C Hölscher, Jakub Krukar (2025). Probing mental representations of space through sketch mapping: a scoping review. CRPI.
Source Document DOI
Freyaan Anklesaria, Panos MAVROS, Azrin Jamaluddin, Zdravko Trivic (2025). Cognitive Complexity in Architectural Layouts Integrating spatial analysis, eye-tracking, and surveys. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATICS, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2025, Volume 4, 489-498.
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Christoph Hoelscher, Lara Gregorians, Leonel Enrique Aguilar Melgar, Yuqin Zhong, Freyaan Anklesaria, Raphael Bauer, Azrin Jamaluddin, Panos MAVROS, Zdravko Trivic (2025). Architectural Cognition in Practice: A Framework for Integrating User Cognition Evidence into Architectural Design. IJSSC.
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Claudia Kawai, Fotis Georgiou, Reto Pieren, Silvia Tobias, Panos MAVROS, Beat Schäffer (2024). Investigating effect chains from cognitive and noise-induced short-term stress build-up to restoration in an urban or nature setting using 360° VR. JEP.
Source Document DOI
Yuqin Zhong, Zhi Sheng Tan, Panos MAVROS, Christoph Hölscher, Bige Tunçer (2024). Estimating Relative Pedestrian Crowd Distribution: A visibility-graph-based analysis workflow for malls during early design stage . eCAADe 42.
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Recent & Upcoming Talks
  • [2024-10-08] Organised a workshop on at the 2024 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics together with Jakub Krukar (Univ. Münster) and Marie Simonet (ETH Zürich).
  • [2024-07-18] Lightining talk at the , organised by our FCL Global team and hosted at the Urban Redevelopment Authority Singapore.
  • [2024-06-27] Invited talk at the (Sorbonne Universite).
  • [2024-06-21] Invited talk at the organised at the University of Pescara, Italy.
  • [2024-01-16] Organised an invited worshop on ‘Architectural Cognition Cards’ at (London, UK), together with Ruth Conroy Dalton and Christoph Hölscher.
  • [2023-11-24] Guest talk at MSc course Managing Urban Change, organised by Dr Michal Gath Morad, University of Cambridge.
Recent News
  • [2025-09-01] Welcome to Marina Smirnova, starting her PhD as part of the INandOUT project, co-superved by myself, Michael Baker and Jakub Krukar, on spatial computing and uncertainty.
  • [2025-06-01] Julie Mollica, PhD student at the University of Virginia, will be spending the following month in our lab, running an experiment on biophilic indoor environments and their effect on emotion and cognition.
  • [2025-03-01] Welcome to Ambre Lahlou, starting her PhD adventure supervised by myself, Michael Baker and Zakaria Djebbara, on neuroarchitecture.
  • [2024-10-01] Welcome to Nasim Bagheri Shouraki starting her PhD adventure supervised by , and myself, on tactile graphical interfaces for visually impaired navigation.
  • [2024-09-23] Dr Lara Gregorians, Postdoctoral researcher at the Architectural Cognition in Practice group at the Future Cities Laboratory, coming for a 1-week research visit at Télécom Paris.
  • [2024-09-16] Yuqin Zhong, , coming for a 1-week research visit at Télécom Paris.
  • [2024-05] Welcome to Dr Marie-Alix Molinie, who is joining our team on !
  • [2024-04] Welcome to Lorenzo Pellegrini, PhD student at University of Pescara who joins us for a 4-month research exchange. Lorenzo works on archiectural neuroaesthetics.
  • [2023-10] Our project proposal was approved for funding. The project will start sometime in the next year and will run for 18-24 months.