I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the CRC for Spatial Information, Project 3.3 Access to Spatial Data, Geomatics Department, and a founder member of the Spatial Information Science Research Group, The University of Melbourne. Prior to commencing work in Melbourne I spent time at the Geography Department and Cognitive Science Emphasis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I received my Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Bremen. I co-authored the project MapSpace which is part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre for Spatial Cognition and worked in the AspectMap project (Spatial Cognition Priority Program, German Science Foundation). I started my Ph.D. studies in Hamburg at the Graduate Program for Cognitive Science.

I will join the Geography Department and the Geovista center at the Pennsylvania State University as an Assistant Professor in GIScience January 2007.

News

12/2006 New MapSpace Website online.

08.11.2006 Paper accepted at AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems.

28.09.2006 Best Paper Award at Spatial Cognition Conference 2006