Martin Raubal
Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Martin Raubal has been a Professor of Geoinformation Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation since April 2011. He was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1968. Professor Raubal studied spatial information science and engineering at the University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA. He obtained a Master’s degree in 1997 before going on to study surveying engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, where he received an engineering diploma (M.S.) in 1998. He was awarded a PhD (Dr. techn.) from the same university in 2001. Later, he moved to the University of Münster, Germany, to obtain a professorship in geoinformatics in 2006. Prior to joining ETH Zurich, he was an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair at the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Research Interest
Geographic information science; Specialising in mobile geographic information systems (GIS); Spatial information technologies.
