Expertise Summary
Martin Raubal is Professor of Geoinformation-Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He was previously Associate Professor and Vice-Chair at the Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Junior Professor at the University of Münster. Martin received his Ph.D. in Geoinformation from Vienna University of Technology in 2001 with honors. He holds a M.S. in Spatial Information Science and Engineering from the University of Maine and a Dipl.-Ing. in Surveying Engineering from Vienna University of Technology. Martin’s research interests lie in the areas of mobile GIS & LBS, spatial cognitive engineering, mobile eye-tracking, and GIS for renewable energy analysis. His teaching includes courses on GIS, cartography, geovisualization, location-based services, temporal aspects of GIS, spatial cognition and wayfinding, and research methods. Martin is currently a council member of AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe) and was a board member of UCGIS (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science) from 2008-11. He serves on the editorial boards of Transactions in GIS, Journal of Location Based Services, Journal of Spatial Information Science, and Geography Compass. He has authored and co-authored more than 90 books and research papers published in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Professional Appointments
Apr. 2011 – Full Professor for Geoinformation-Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Oct. 2011 – Member of the Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich
Mar. 2011 – Adjunct Professor Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
2008 – 2011 Associate Professor Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
2008 – Affiliated faculty member Department of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
2007 – Faculty member of Cognitive Science Program University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
2006 – 2008 Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
Selected Publications
Y. Yuan, M. Raubal, and Y. Liu (2012) Correlating Mobile Phone Usage and Travel Behavior - A Case Study of Harbin, China. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 36(2): 118-130.
M. Raubal (2011) Cogito ergo mobilis sum: The impact of Location-Based Services on our mobile lives. in: T. Nyerges, H. Couclelis, and R. McMaster (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society. pp. 159-173, Sage Publications, Los Angeles, London.
M. Raubal (2009) Cognitive Engineering for Geographic Information Science. Geography Compass 3(3): 1087–1104.
M. Raubal, S. Winter, S. Teßmann, and C. Gaisbauer (2007) Time geography for ad-hoc shared-ride trip planning in mobile geosensor networks. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 62(5): 366-381.
M. Raubal and S. Winter (2002) Enriching Wayfinding Instructions with Local Landmarks. in: M. Egenhofer and D. Mark (Eds.), Geographic Information Science - Second International Conference, GIScience 2002, Boulder, CO, USA, September 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2478, pp. 243-259, Springer, Berlin.
