Martin Raubal

Short Biography

Martin Raubal is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also an affiliated faculty member at the Department of Computer Science and a faculty member of the Cognitive Science Program at University of California, Santa Barbara. Martin received his PhD in Geoinformation from Vienna University of Technology in 2001 with honors. He also holds a MS degree in Spatial Information Science and Engineering from the University of Maine and a Dipl-Ing in Surveying Engineering from Vienna University of Technology. 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 is currently a board member of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and serves on the editorial boards of Transactions in GIS, Journal of Location Based Services, and Geography Compass. He was a council member of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe, from 2005–2006. Martin served as Program Chair of the 4th International Conference on GIScience 2006. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 books and research papers published in refereed journals and conference proceedings.