Prof Dr Christoph HOELSCHER

Prof. Christoph Hoelscher has been professor of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich since 2013. At the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), he is Principal Investigator of the Social and Financial Resilience module in FRS, as well as collaborator for the 'Estimating Economic Losses from Cascading Infrastructure Disruptions' project in FRS. He is involved in the Future Cities Lab Global, another SEC programme, as Co-Investigator of 'Dense and Green Cities' and 'A Neuroscientific investigation of the Interaction between Crowdedness and Environment typology' (NICE). Prof. Hoelscher was previously assistant and extra-curricular professor at the Center for Cognitive Science in the University of Freiburg, Germany. He received his Doctorate (2000) and Habilitation (2009) in Psychology at the University of Freiburg. He was a project manager in the IT industry from 2000-2003, specialising in user-adaptive systems and usability.