SG Team Bios

Asst. Prof. Dr Zdravko TRIVIC

Co-Principal Investigator

akizt@nus.edu.sg

Dr Zdravko Trivic is Assistant 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.

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Dr Lara GREGORIANS

Postdoctoral Researcher  

lara.gregorians@sec.ethz.ch

Lara is a postdoctoral researcher 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.

• PhD, Spatial Cognition Lab, University College London
• MSc, Health Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings, University College London
• BASc, Arts & Sciences, University College London

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Freyaan ANKLESARIA

PhD Researcher

freyaan.anklesaria@sec.ethz.ch

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.

• MSc, Space Syntax - Architecture and Cities, University College London
• Bachelor of Architecture, CEPT University, India

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Yuqin ZHONG

PhD Researcher

yuqin.zhong@sec.ethz.ch

• Master of Architecture, National University of Singapore
• BA, Architecture, National University of Singapore

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Azrin Jamaluddin

Researcher

azrin.jamaluddin@sec.ethz.ch

• MSc, Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
• BSc, Psychology, University of Nottingham