Geographic Information Systems
GIScience Center: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
GIScience Center is responsible for teaching and research in geographic information science within the Department of Geography. Three divisions of our department make up the GIScience Center:
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Geographic Information Visualization & Analysis (GIVA)
GeoComputation (GeoComp)
News
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New Publication
Advances and challenges in sensor-based research in mobility, health, and placeHealth & Place
Volume 79, January 2023, 102972 -
New team member
A warm welcome to our new team member Takuya Takahashi. Takuya will be working as a postdoc on the Out of Asia project and is also a recipient of an Overseas Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS.
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New Publication
Charting everyday activities in later life: Study protocol of the mobility, activity, and social interactions study (MOASIS)
Frontiers in Psychology -
New Publication
GPS-Derived Daily Mobility and Daily Well-Being in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Gerontology -
Workshop: Reconstructing Population History
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New team member
A warm welcome to our latest team member, Jingyi ZHOU. Jingyi is a visiting PhD candidate from Nanjing Normal University, China and will be staying with us until the end of 2023, funded by the China Scholarship Council.
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New Publication
Timed up-and-go performance is associated with objectively measured life space in patients 3 months after ischemic stroke
Journal of Neurology (2022) -
New citizen science project
How to make the city smarter and more inclusive with and for citizens?
Recently we won a new Citizen Science project in collaboration with the City of Zurich starting in 2023. -
Distinction award for Nico Neureiter
Our PhD student Nico Neureiter, whose project was funded by the URPP Language and Space, has received the distinction award of the Faculty of Science of UZH for his thesis entitled"Travelling with speakers through time and space: Spatio-temporal modelling of language change”
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DSI Community Mobility Research Workshop
From 30 June - 1 July 2022, the DSI Community Mobility Research Workshop on "Mobility and Digitalization" organized by Hoda Allahbakhshi, Liudmila Zavolokina, and Anja Schulze took place in Maienfeld.