Martin Raubal, Ph.D (curriculum vitae )

Martin Raubal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in Geoinformation from the Vienna University of Technology in 2001 with honors. He also holds a M.S. degree in Spatial Information Science and Engineering (University of Maine, 1997) and a Dipl.-Ing. in Surveying Engineering (Vienna University of Technology, 1998). Martin’s research interests lie in the area of cognitive engineering for geospatial services, more specifically he focuses on representing and modeling people’s cognition and spatio-temporal behavior, and the integration of such models into geospatial applications for the enhancement of people’s decision-making support. His teaching includes courses on GIS, cartographic design, geovisualization, cognitive and temporal aspects of GIS, spatial cognition and wayfinding, and research methods. Martin was a council member of AGILE, the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe, from 2005-2006. He served as Program Chair of the 4th International Conference on GIScience 2006. Martin has authored and co-authored more than 50 books and research papers published in refereed journals and conference proceedings.