Dr Saskia KULIGA

Postdoctoral Researcher of Cognition, Perception, and Behaviour in Urban Environments

kuliga@arch.ethz.ch

Saskia Kuliga is working in the FCL Cognition, Perception, and Behavior in Urban Environments project, studying wayfinding processes and visual attention of older persons in high-density public spaces in Singapore. She is involved in the FCL project from September 2019 to February 2020 as a recipient of a postdoc scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Her current research is a continuation of her work from August 2018 to July 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher at FCL, where she contributed to the L2NIC Pedestrian Comfort project, among other projects.

Saskia has conducted virtual-reality and real-world experimentation with regard to human-environment interactions (behavior, emotion, cognition). She received the renowned Bauhaus Postdoc Scholarship (2017). She also was involved in international research projects (e.g., “ESUM”, Bauhaus University and ETH Zurich, 2015-2018), university teaching, and the acquisition of research grant proposals.

Saskia Kuliga received her doctorate in psychology within the former Transregional Research Centre Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR8/R6) at the Chair of Cognitive Science of the University of Freiburg (2012-2015). She attained a Master of Science in Psychology from the University of Twente in the Netherlands (2010), where she also contributed to research at the Chair of Conflict- and Risk Psychology (2011).

Awards

  • DAAD Postdoc Scholarship 2019
  • Bauhaus Postdoc Scholarship 2017
  • Finalist in the "Innovations in Healthcare Thesis Award” 2011 and “Schuijer Campus Cultuurprijs” 2010

Selected publications

Selection of peer-reviewed journal publications

  • Kuliga, S. F., Nelligan, B., Dalton, R. C., Marchette, S., Shelton, A. L., Carlson, L., & Hölscher, C. (2019). Exploring Individual Differences and Building Complexity in Wayfinding: The Case of the Seattle Central Library. Environment and Behavior, 51(5), 622-665.
  • Kuliga, S., Thrash, T., Dalton, R.C., & Hölscher, C. (2015). Virtual Reality as Empirical Research Tool – Exploring User Experience in a Real Building and a Corresponding Virtual Model. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 54:11, 363-375. doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.09.006
  • Dalton, R., Kuliga, S., & Hölscher, C. (2013). POE 2.0: Exploring the Potential of Social Media for capturing Unsolicited Post occupancy Evaluations. Intelligent Buildings International, 5:3, 62–180. doi:10.1080/17508975.2013.800813