I am a psycho-physicist and Cognitive Scientist who’s excited about study­ing how humans orient in vir­tual and real envi­ron­ments. I received my PhD in Physics from the Tübingen University in Germany and researched for a decade in the Virtual Reality group of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany. After a post-doc in Psychology at Vanderbilt University I joined the School of Interactive Arts & Technology of Simon Fraser University in 2008, where I am a full professor directing the iSpace Lab. My research approach combines fun­da­men­tal sci­en­tific research with an applied per­spec­tive of improv­ing human-computer interaction.