Sara Irina Fabrikant#
| Membership Number: | 7055 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.geo.uzh.ch/en/units/giva.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1263-8792 |
| X: | @giva_uzh |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara4you/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 Research Fellow, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 2013 Full Professor at the University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2017 - 2021 Founding Member of the Board of Directors of the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2016 - 2018 Member of the Executive Board: Head Teaching, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2014 - 2016 Head of the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting Scholar, UCSB Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara (CA), sabbatical stay, Nov. 2013–Feb. 2014.
- 2013 Visiting Scholar, Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), & Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA),
- 2005 - 2013 Associate Professor at the University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2008 Adjunct Professor, San Diego State University, CA.
- 2000 - 2005 Assistant Professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
- 1999/2000 Visiting Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.
Fields of Scholarship
- Cartography
- Spatial cognition
- GIScience
- Geography
- Human-computer interaction
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Waldo-Tobler GIScience Prize 2023, Austrian Academy of Science, Committee for Geographic Information Science
- 2023 Research Fellow, Department of Information Networking for Innovation and Design (INIAD), Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2023 Nominated for SigmaXi, the scientific research honor society
- 2023 Nominated for Academia Net, the online database of excellent women academics
- 2022 Reviewer Certificate in recognition of outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- 2021 Reviewer Certificate in recognition of outstanding contribution to the quality of the journal Learning & Behavior.
- 2021 Member of the Ethics Commission of the UZH Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- 2019 - 2023 Swiss Science Council (SSC): Reappointed Member
- 2019 Elected Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 2019 Best Paper of the Year 2019 award in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (Psychonomic Soc.) together with a supervised
- 2018 - 2021 Elected Associate Fellow of the UZH|ETH|ZHdK Collegium Helveticum
- 2017 PI: ERC Advanced Grant (5 years: EUR 2,5 Mio): GeoViSense: Towards a transdisciplinary human sensor science of human visuo-spatial decision making with geographic information display
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the Digital Society Initiative
- 2017 Michael Breheny Prize for best article in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design in 2016
- 2016 British Cartographic Society’s Henry Johns Award for best paper in The Cartographic Journal in 2015
- 2015 Swiss Science Council (SSC): Elected Member
- 2015 - 2019 International Cartographic Association: Elected Vice President and member of the Executive Committee
- 2011 - 2015 International Cartographic Association: Cognitive Visualization Commission. Elected Chair.
- 2008 - 2010 Inter-University Partnership for Earth Observation and Geoinformatics (IPEG). Elected President
- 2006 Association of American Geographers Cartography Specialty Group. Elected Academic Councilor (2006 - 2008)
- 2006 Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE). Elected council member (2006 - 2009)
- 2003 Association of American Geographers GIS Specialty Group. Elected Academic Councilor (2003 - 2005)
