PhD: State-Dependent Spatial Representations using immersive Virtual Reality

Are you fascinated by how people understand, navigate, and communicate complex spatial environments?

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Are you fascinated by how people understand, navigate, and communicate complex spatial environments? Do you hold a master’s degree in cognitive science, environmental psychology, human-computer interaction, geo-information science, or a related field, with experience in experimental research using virtual reality? If so, we have an exciting PhD opportunity for you!

Spatial thinking plays a crucial role in understanding and communicating environmental issues, from climate adaptation and landscape planning to biodiversity loss, water management, and sustainable land use. These challenges often require people to reason about spatial processes that are not immediately visible: future scenarios, delayed consequences, cascading effects, or changes that unfold across places and time. To support better environmental decision-making and co...