Prof. Dr. Jakub Krukar
Current affiliations
- Junior professorship of spatial cognition (Prof. Krukar)
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- I am a Junior Professor in Spatial Cognition - a branch of cognitive science studying how people think about, think in, and think with space. My background and approach are interdisciplinary, with an MA in psychology, a PhD from a department of architecture, and postdoctoral experience in geoinformatics. Methods I work with include virtual reality, mobile eye-tracking, spatial computation, Bayesian statistics, and architectural theory of Space Syntax. I am based at the Institute for Geoinformatics in Münster, Germany. I also enjoyed a tenure as a Visiting Fellow at Future Cities Lab in Singapore. Prior to that I was at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK.
Publications
Simonet, M.; Vater, C.; Abati, C.; Zhong, S.; Mavros, P.; Schwering, A.; Raubal, M.; Holscher, C.; Krukar, J. (2025) In: Cognitive research: principles and implications, 10(1). doi:10.1186/s41235-025-00667-w Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Xiao T.; Chen Y.; Zhong S.; Kiefer P.; Krukar J.; Kim K.G.; Hurni L.; Schwering A.; Raubal M. (2025) In: Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers, Koji Yatani, Xianghua Ding, Bongshin Lee, Marshini Chetty,Phoebe Toups-Dugas (eds.), CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-24. Yokohama Japan: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/3706598.3713467 Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Krukar J. (2024) In: Peponis John (eds.), Museum Configurations: an Inquiry into the Design of Spatial Syntaxes, 101-119. Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003405825-5 Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Krukar J.; Dalton R.; Hoelscher C.; Dalton N.S.; Veddeler C.; Wiberg M. (2024) In: Florian Floyd Mueller, Penny Kyburz, Julie R. Williamson, Corina Sas (eds.), CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-5. New York: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/3613905.3636320 Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Manivannan C.; Krukar J.; Schwering A. (2024) In: PloS one, 19. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0304696 Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published |
Projects
Duration: 01/02/2025 - 31/01/2028 | 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme Type of project: Individual project | |
Duration: 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation Type of project: Individual project | |
Duration: 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2024 Funded by: MKW - Förderlinie "Profilbildung" Type of project: Participation in other joint projects | |
Wayfinding through Orientation (WayTo) Duration: 01/09/2015 - 31/03/2021 Funded by: EC FP 7 - ERC Starting Grant Type of project: EU-project hosted at University of Münster | |
Duration: 01/04/2015 - 31/12/2023 Type of project: Own resources project |
Talks
| From spatial cognition to evidence-based architecture: Bridging psychology, computation, and design Krukar, Jakub (18/03/2025) ETH Behavioral Studies Colloquium, ETH Zurich Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| Advancing the ecological validity of architectural cognition Krukar, Jakub (06/05/2024) Global Seminar, Future Cities Lab Singapore and ETH Zurich Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| Rethinking wayfinding support systems: Wayfinding through orientation Krukar, Jakub (19/07/2018) Seminar, Center of Cognitive Science Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| Rethinking Research: Experimental Approaches and Methods in the Art Museum. Krukar Jakub (08/06/2015) Rethinking Research: Experimental Approaches and Methods in the Art Museum., Tate Gallery, London Type of talk: scientific talk | |
| "Walk, Look, Remember - The Influence of Spatial Layout on Human Attention and Memory of Art Exhibits" Krukar Jakub (22/05/2015) Seminar, Center for Cognitive Science, Uni Freiburg Type of talk: scientific talk |