Christoph Hoelscher is Professor of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich since 2013, and was previously assistant and extra-curricular professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany, Center for Cognitive Science. He received his Doctorate (2000) and Habilitation (2009) in Psychology at the University of Freiburg. He was project manager in IT industry from 2000-2003, specialising in user-adaptive systems and usability. 

Visiting positions 

• University College London, honorary senior research fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture / Space Syntax group (since 2007)
• Visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara, departments of Geography and Psychology (2011 & 2012)
• Visiting researcher and project manager at University of Freiburg / SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition (2013-2014)
  

Service roles

• Governing board Cognitive Science Society (since 2012)
• Board of directors SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition (2007-2012)
• Co-chair of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2011, Boston)
• Co-chair of Spatial Cognition International Conference (2010, Mt. Hood, OR)

Research  

• Wayfinding in Built Environments
• Spatial Cognition & Usability Research for Architectural Design
  
• Human Computer Interaction
  
• User Modeling & Personalisation
  
• Information Retrieval & Web Search Behaviour