Students
PhD students
2022
- Changyu Han
- PhD student, 2022.02-present
- “Modeling Restorative Places from Daily Mobility Data to Explore Functions of Healthy Aging” (working title)
Visiting PhD students
2023
- Jingyi Zhou
- Visiting PhD student from Nanjing Normal University, China. 2023.2-present
- “Research on generalization method of indoor emergency navigation path considering landmark cognition”
2022
- Jing He
- Visiting PhD student from Wuhan University, China. 2021.11-2022.10
- “Research on the Poverty Alleviation Effect from the Perspective of Multidimensional Poverty”
Master students
2023
- Yelu He
- Master thesis. Co-advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Mr. Wernher Brucks in the City of Zurich. 2023.5-present
- “The influence of traffic-infrastructure characteristics on e-scooter accidents in the city of Zürich” (working title).
- Nicola Maiani
- Master thesis. Co-advisor, with Prof. Dr. Ross Purves. 2023.4-present
- “Traffic coverage quality by bike in Switzerland: A comparison of cities’ bikeability” (working title)
- Linus Rüegg
- Master thesis. Co-advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Thomas Phillips. 2022.10-present
- “LocID – A Unique Object at a Location Identifier: Designing a Global Hierarchical Geographic Identifier that Accounts for Spatial Inaccuracy and Computational Performance”
2022
- Tao Peng
- Master thesis. Main advisor. 2022.10-present
- “The Association between Human Mobility and Political, Social, Spatial Factors in the US” (working title)
- Adrian Grossenbacher
- Master Thesis. Main advisor. 2022.10-present
- “Impact of Urban Structure on Mobility During COVID-19: A Polycentricity Perspective” (working title)
2021
- Jan Winkler
- Master Thesis. Main advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Zhiyong Zhou. 2021.11-2022.3
- “Exploring Transformer Architecture for Building Generalization in Binary Cartographic Maps”
- Nicolas Beglinger
- Master Thesis. Main advisor, with Prof. Dr. Robert Weibel and Dr. Zhiyong Zhou. 2021.11-2022.3
- “Vector-based Cartographic Generalization of Roads using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks”
- Alexandra-Ioana Georgescu
- Master Thesis. Main advisor. 2021.02-2021.10. Now PhD student at UZH
- “Optimising Locations for Future Return Car-sharing Services: Case Study of the Swiss Car-sharing Cooperative Mobility”
2020
- Martin Specker
- Master thesis. Main advisor. 2020.10-2022.02
- “Gait Analysis of Older Adults: Filter Comparison and Geographical Context”
- Pascal Griffel
- Master thesis. Main advisor, with Prof. Dr. Christina Röcke, Dept. of Psychology UZH. 2020.02-2021.01
- “Correlates of Older Adults’ Out-of-Home Behaviour: Linking Health and Cognition with Mobility Indicators Derived from GPS-Trajectories”
- Livio Brühwiler
- Master thesis. Main advisor. 2020.02-2021.01
- “Predicting Individual Car Accident Risk using G.P.S. Trajectories and Critical Driving Events Data”
2019
- Reetta Vaelimaeki
- Master thesis. Main advisor. 2019.08-2020.11
- “The Relationship of Visiting Places and the Health of the Aging: through Spatial Trajectory Data”
2018
- Ursina Boos
- Independent research project. Main advisor. 2018.09-2019.02
- “Towards Cross-Scale Origin Destination Individual Mobility Networks Using Big Data”
