☕️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.
- Spatial Cognition, Wayfinding, Navigation
- Quantitative methods for User Experience Research
- Digital urban planning, Architectural Cognition
PhD Advanced Spatial Analysis and Environmental Psychophysiology
University College London, UK
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.
I am looking for students interested in internships (stages), click to see topics
- [2024-10-08] Organised a workshop on ‘3D Sketching Across Cognition, Design, and Art’ 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 Health and Wellbeing in the City Symposium, organised by our FCL Global team and hosted at the Urban Redevelopment Authority Singapore.
- [2024-06-27] Invited talk at the ISIR Laboratory (Sorbonne Universite).
- [2024-06-21] Invited talk at the EXMIND Symposium organised at the University of Pescara, Italy.
- [2024-01-16] Organised an invited worshop on ‘Architectural Cognition Cards’ at Heatherwick Studio (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.
- [2024-10-01] Welcome to Nasim Bagheri Shouraki starting her PhD adventure supervised by Pooran Memari, Gilles Bailly 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, PhD student at Future Cities Laboratory, coming for a 1-week research visit at Télécom Paris.
- [2024-05] Welcome to Dr Marie-Alix Molinie, who is joining our team on Project SPACIOUS!
- [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 SPACIOUS was approved for funding. The project will start sometime in the next year and will run for 18-24 months.