Dr Victor Schinazi
Associate Professor
Level 3, Building 1a, Faculty of Society & Design, Bond University
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Professional biography
Research interests
Victor is an urban planner by training and holds a PhD in geography from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA, UCL). Between 2009-​2012, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (University of Pennsylvania) and served as Chief Science Officer for Strategic Spatial Solutions, Inc. Victor is a native of Canada and Brazil and is fluent in five languages. Victor’s research combines real world and laboratory experiments to investigate various topics in spatial cognition, environmental health and ageing. He is particularly interested in understanding individual differences in navigation and the extent to which locomotion and wayfinding depend on amodal spatial representations. Much of his research relies on the development of immersive virtual environments that can mimic real-​world situations. This work has resulted in a series of collaborations with other scholars in computer science, public health, landscape architecture, education and the digital humanities.
Research interests:
- Spatial cognition - Navigation - Virtual / Augmented reality - Architecture - Evidence-based design - Urban health - AgeingTeaching expertise
Research Interests:
- Spatial cognition
- Navigation
- Virtual / Augmented reality
- Architecture
- Evidence-based design
- Urban health
- Ageing
Professional admissions
- Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
- European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP)
- Psychonomic Society
- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
Qualifications
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Award Date: 1 Jun 2011
- Geogragraphy, Ph.D., University College London, Award Date: 1 Jun 2008
- Urban Planning / Sociology, B.A. (Hons), Concordia University, Award Date: 1 Jun 2002
Fields of Research
- Applied and developmental psychology