SG Team Bios
Meet the team based at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
Email: akizt@nus.edu.sg; connect on LinkedIn and Twitter
Dr Zdravko Trivic is Associate Professor and the Director of the Master of Urban Planning programme at the Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore. He works closely with CSAC (Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities) and CARE (Centre for Ageing Research in the Environment) at NUS and SEC/FCL Global, where he leads several research projects focusing on design for health and well-being, the perceptual facets of human experience and multi-sensorial urbanism in high-density environments, and the community participation and creative placemaking. He holds PhD in Architecture from NUS, Singapore and Dip. Ing. Arch. From the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Email: lara.gregorians@sec.ethz.ch; connect on LinkedIn and Twitter
Lara is a postdoctoral researcher and module coordinator in the Architectural Cognition in Practice group. She holds a PhD from UCL, in which she sought to bridge the worlds of Spatial Cognition and Neuroarchitecture by exploring architectural experience as a combination of spatial, aesthetic and affective processing. Lara is experienced in analyzing subjective, physiological and neural responses to spaces, having run real-world behavioral studies and fMRI-neuroimaging studies on architectural experience. As part of the ACP group, Lara will be carrying out empirical research exploring person-environment interactions, as well as collaborating with industry partners to work on translating architectural cognition research into practice.
Email: freyaan.anklesaria@sec.ethz.ch; connect on LinkedIn
Freyaan’s recent work is on evidence based design methods which integrate scientific knowledge into architectural design processes within education and practice. Within industry, she has worked on projects involving research, spatial analysis and agent based model simulations to inform the design of large and complex buildings such as airports terminals; urban spatial analysis for assessing key performance indicators such as walkability, access to public amenities and green space etc. Her work spans architecture and urban scales, in design and research, in the UK, India and Sri Lanka. She has also been teaching design studios, workshops and elective courses, and guiding research for architecture and urban design students at undergraduate and postgraduate level in India. Her focus is on introducing user-centric theories and methods such as Space Syntax to designers.
Email: yuqin.zhong@sec.ethz.ch; connect on LinkedIn
Yuqin is a PhD researcher in the Architectural Cognition in Practice module and a Doctoral student in the Department of Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture and has extensive experience in both research and the architectural industry. Her research interests lie at the intersection of architectural design and cognitive science, focusing on enhancing methods and workflows to integrate user cognition and behaviour into architectural practice. She is particularly interested to guiding designers in the early stages of complex building projects and developing platforms and frameworks that facilitate effective and accessible knowledge-sharing/integration.
Email: azrin.jamaluddin@sec.ethz.ch
Azrin is a researcher in the Architectural Cognition in Practice group. He holds an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from UCL and a BSc in Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Nottingham. He has experience working with behavioural, survey, eye-tracking, and neural data. His current research in the group involves evaluating the usability and effectiveness of a pedestrian wayfinding system using various methodologies such as deep dive interviews, user shadowing, and behavioural experiments using mobile eye-tracking.
Published 29. January 2024 (Updated 4 months ago) Return ACP Module Overview