Curriculum Vitae Tobias Meilinger

Curriculum Vitae Tobias Meilinger
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Academic
Positions
9/2013 – Group leader of the Social and Spatial Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological
Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany
9/2012 – 8/2013 Research Scientist at the University of Tokyo, Japan (Humboldt Foundation/Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science)
1/2010 – 8/2012 Project leader in own project from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Max Planck Institute
for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
06/2008 – 12/2009 Post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
11/2007 – 12/2007 Visiting fellowship at Collège de France, Paris
11/2005 – 5/2008 Researcher in EU-project, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
6/2003 – 10/2005 PhD student in project within Collaborative Research Centre (DFG), Freiburg University,
Germany
2/2003 – 4/2003 Researcher in project of the Federal Highway? Research Institute, Würzburg University, Germany
11/1997 – 12/2002 Research assistant, Würzburg University, Germany
Education
estim. 12/2015 Habilitation in Psychology, Tübingen University
Thesis: “Reference frames in spatial integration, memory and recall”
12/2007 PhD in Psychology, Freiburg University
Thesis: “Strategies of orientation in environmental spaces“, Prof. Strube
11/2002 Diploma in Psychology, Würzburg University (subsidiary subjects: artificial intelligence,
philosophy, economy), Thesis: “Kompetenzerwerb von Menüsystemen als multikodierter Prozess”
(Knowledge acquisition in menu systems as a multi-coded process), Prof. Krüger
Grants
Feodor Lynen grant by the Humboldt Foundation, 40.000€
Project “Where is my goal? The functional, computational and neural basis of human survey
knowledge” German Research Foundation (DFG), 130.000€
Project “Spatial integration from views and maps”, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS), 60.000€
Research interests
Navigation, spatial perception and memory, social and spatial cognition
Research impact
17 journal papers (e.g., Psychological Science, Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review),
6 book chapters, 17 conference papers, 38 abstracts
Citations: 727 (google scholar), 270 (scopus)
H index: 15 (google scholar), 8 (scopus)
Publications
Journal papers Meilinger, T., * Frankenstein, J., * Simon, N., Bülthoff, H.H., & Bresciani, J.-P. (in press). Not all
memories are the same: situational context influences spatial recall within ones city of residency.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. [*equal contributions]
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & Hölscher, C. (in press). Reference
frames in learning from maps and navigation. Psychological Research.
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2014). When in doubt follow your nose – a
wayfinding strategy. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-7.
Meilinger, T., Riecke, B.E., Bülthoff, H.H. (2014). Local and global reference frames for
environmental spaces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 542-569.
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Bülthoff, H.H. (2013). Learning to navigate: experience vs. maps.
Cognition, 129, 24-30.
Meilinger, T. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2013). Verbal shadowing and visual interference in spatial
memory. PLOS ONE, 8, 1-9.
Takahashi, K..,* Meilinger, T.,* Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H. (2013). Psychological influences on
distance estimation in a virtual reality environment. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 1-7.
[*equal contributions]
Frankenstein, J., Mohler, B.J., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2012). Is the Map in Our Head is
Oriented North? Psychological Science, 23, 120-125.
Meilinger, T., Franz, G., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2012). From Isovists via Mental Representations to
Behaviour: First Steps Toward Closing the Causal Chain. Environment and Planning B, 39, 48-62.
Barnett-Cowan, M., Meilinger, T., Vidal, M., Teufel, H. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2012). MPI
CyberMotion Simulator: Implementation of a novel motion simulator to investigate path integration
in three dimensions. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 63, 1-6.
Meilinger, T.,* Berthoz, A. & Wiener, J.M.* (2011). The integration of spatial information across
different viewpoints. Memory & Cognition, 39, 1042-1054. [*equal contributions]
van der Ham, I.J.M., van Zandvoort, M.J.E., Meilinger, T., Bosch, S.E., Kant, N. & Postma, A.
(2010) Spatial and temporal aspects of navigation in two neurological patients. NeuroReport, 21,
685-689.
Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., Meilinger, T., & Strube, G. (2009). Adaptivity of wayfinding
strategies in a multi-building ensemble – the effects of spatial structure, task requirements and
metric information. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29, 208-219.
Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2008). Ask for your way or use a map: A field experiment on spatial
orientation and wayfinding in an urban environment. Journal of Spatial Science, 53, 13-23.
Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2008). Working memory in wayfinding – a dual task
experiment in a virtual city. Cognitive Science, 32, 755-770.
Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., Brösamle, M., & Knauff, M. (2006). Up the down
staircase: next term Wayfinding strategies in multi-level buildings. Journal of Environmental
Psychology, 26, 284–299.
Vollrath, M., Meilinger, T., & Krüger, H.-P. (2002). How the presence of passengers influences
the risk of a collision with another vehicle. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 34, 649–654.
Journal papers Meilinger, T.,* Pape, A.-A.,* Schultz, J., Bülthoff, H.H., & Wolbers, T. (under revision). Grid cell
submitted remapping in human entorhinal cortex. Nature Neuroscience [*equal contributions]
Meilinger, T.,* Strickrodt, M.,* & Bülthoff, H.H. (under revision). Qualitative differences between
environmental and vista space memory are caused by the separation of space, not by movement or
successive perception. Cognition [*equal contributions]
Meilinger, T. & Watanabe, K. (under revision). Multiple strategies for spatial integration of 2D
layouts in working memory. Plos One.
Jung, E., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, K, de la Rosa, S. Butz, M.V., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T.
(under revision). The Influence of Human Body Orientation on Distance Judgments. Frontiers in
Psychology.
Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Hardieβ, G. Mallot, H.A., Bülthoff, H.H.
(submitted). How to best name a place? Facilitation and inhibition of route learning due to
descriptive and arbitrary location labels.
CV Tobias Meilinger – p. 2
Book chapters Hardiess, G., Meilinger, T., Mallot, H.A. (2015). Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition. In J.D.
Wright (Ed), International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 133-137).
Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Vosgerau, G. Knoll, A., Meilinger, T., Vogeley, K. (2013). Representation. In A. Stephan, S.
Walter (Eds.), Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft (pp.386-401). Stuttgart: Metzler.
Basten, K., Meilinger, T., Mallot, H.A. (2012). Mental travel primes place orientation in spatial
recall. In C. Stachniss, K. Schill, D.H. Uttal (Eds.), Spatial Cognition VIII, LNAI 7463 (pp. 378385). Berlin: Springer.
Meilinger, T. & Vosgerau, G. (2010). Putting Egocentric and Allocentric into Perspective. In C.
Hölscher, C., T. F. Shipley, M. Olivetti Belardinelli, J. A. Bateman, N. S. Newcombe (Eds.),
Spatial Cognition VII, LNAI 6222 (pp. 207-211). Berlin: Springer.
Meilinger, T. (2008). The network of reference frames theory: A synthesis of graphs and cognitive
maps. In C. Freksa, N.S. Newcombe, P. Gärdenfors & S. Wölfl (Eds.), Spatial Cognition VI, LNAI
5248 (pp. 344-360). Berlin: Springer.
Meilinger, T., Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., & Brösamle, M. (2006). How Much Information Do
You Need? Schematic Maps in Wayfinding and Self Localisation. In T. Barkowsky et al. (Eds.),
Spatial Cognition V, LNAI 4387 (pp. 381–400). Berlin: Springer.
Conference papers Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Berger, D. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2015). Global
Landmarks Do Not Necessarily Improve Spatial Performance in Addition to Bodily Self-Movement
Cues when Learning a Large-Scale Virtual Environment. International Conference on Artificial
Reality and Telexistence. Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments.
Henson, A., Mallot, H.A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2011). When do we integrate spatial
information acquired by walking through environmental spaces? 33rd Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2764-2769).
Meilinger, T. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010). The Direction Bias and the Incremental Construction of
Survey Knowledge. 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 2500-2505).
Frankenstein, J., Meilinger, T., Mohler, B. J. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2009). Spatial memory for highly
familiar environments. 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2650-2655).
Bülthoff, H.H., Campos, J.L. & Meilinger, T. (2008). Virtual Reality as a Valuable Research Tool
for Investigating Different Aspects of Spatial Cognition. International Conference Spatial
Cognition 2008 (pp. 1-3).
Wiener, J.*, Meilinger, T.*, & Berthoz, A. (2008). The integration of spatial information across
different perspectives. 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2031-2036).
[*equal contributions]
Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., Brösamle, M., Meilinger, T., & Strube, G. (2007). Signs and Maps:
Cognitive Economy in the Use of External Aids for Indoor Navigation. Proceedings of the 29th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 377–382).
Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). Orientation Specificity in Long-TermMemory for Environmental Spaces. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society (pp. 479–484).
Hölscher, C., Büchner, S. J., Meilinger, T., & Strube, G. (2006). Map Use and Wayfinding
Strategies in a Multi-Building Ensemble. International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006 (pp.
365–380). Berlin: Springer.
Meilinger, T., Franz, G., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2006). From Isovists via Mental Representations to
Behaviour: First Steps Toward Closing the Causal Chain. Proceedings of the Space Syntax and
Spatial Cognition Workshop (pp. 1–16). Bremen: Universität Bremen.
Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2006). Working memory in wayfinding – a dual task
experiment in a virtual city. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 585–590).
Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., & Knauff, M. (2005). The Floor Strategy: Wayfinding
Cognition in a Multi-Level Building. 5th International Space Syntax Symposium (pp. 823–824).
[Note: Six page paper version online].
Vrachliotis, G., Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T. (2005). Building analysis from a spatial cognition
perspective. 5th International Space Syntax Symposium, 823–824. [Note: Six page paper version
online].
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Meilinger, T. (2005). Wayfinding with Maps and Verbal Directions. Proceedings of the 27th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1473–1478).
Totzke, I., Meilinger, T., & Krüger, H.-P. (2005). Adaptivität und Adaptierbarkeit von
menügesteuerten Informationssystemen – Kein Ansatz zur Lösung des Problems der
Erlernbarkeit?!. In C. Urbas & C. Steffens (Eds.), Zustandserkennung und Systemgestaltung (pp.
35–40). Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag.
Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., Brösamle, M., & Knauff, M. (2004). Finding the Way
Inside: Linking Architectural Design Analysis and Cognitive Processes. International Conference
Spatial Cognition 2004 (pp. 1–23). Berlin: Springer.
Totzke, I., Meilinger, T., & Krüger, H.-P. (2003). Erlernbarkeit von Menüsystemen im Fahrzeug –
mehr als "nur" eine Lernkurve. In Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (Eds.), Der Fahrer im 21.
Jahrhundert, VDI Berichte 1768 (pp.171-195). Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag. (best paper award).
Conference abstracts Meilinger, T., Takahashi K., Foster, C., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H., & de la Rosa, S. (2015).
Spatial orientation as a social cue – the case of objects and avatars. VI International Conference on
Spatial Cognition.
Saulton, A., Meilinger, T., Bülthoff, H.H. & de la Rosa, S. (2015). The interaction of social and
spatial cognitive processes in naturalistic social interactions. VI International Conference on Spatial
Cognition.
Meilinger, T., Rebane, J., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Mallot, H.A. (2015). The acquisition of
survey knowledge through navigation. VI International Conference on Spatial Cognition.
Meilinger, T., Garsoffky, B., Horeis, C., Schwan, S. (2015). The perception of relative speed of
two bodies as a function of independent observer movement. 57. Tagung experimentell arbeitender
Psychologen.
Meilinger, T., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. (2015). Mental mapping impossible environments. 57.
Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Strickrodt, M. & Meilinger, T. (2015). Movement, successive presentation and environmental
structure and their influence on spatial memory in vista and environmental space. 57. Tagung
experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Leroy, C, Zhao, M. Butz, M, Bülthoff, HH, Meilinger, T. (2015). Spatial memory in 3D. 57.
Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Huff, M., Papenmeier, F., Meilinger, M. & de la Rosa, S. (2015). Semantic Relations in
Asymmetric Dynamic Social Interactions. 57. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Mohler, B.J., Bülthoff, H.H., (2014). How to remember Tübingen?
Reference frames in route and survey knowledge of one’s city of residency. KogWis 2014.
Meilinger, T., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Mallot, H.A. (2014). How much path integration is in
the cognitive map? European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting 2014.
O’Malley, M., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2014). How to find a shortcut within a city? Mental
walk vs. mental model. 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists.
Meilinger, T. & Watanabe, K. (2014). Multiple strategies for spatial integration. 56th Conference
of Experimental Psychologists.
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Watanabe, K., Bülthoff, H.H. & Hölscher, C. (2014). Map-based
reference frames are used to organize memory of subsequent navigation experience. Spatial
Cognition 2014.
Meilinger, T. & Watanabe, K. (2013). Reference frames in the integration of spatial information
across views. Vision Science Society 13th Annual meeting.
Meilinger, T., Henson, A., Bülthoff, H.H. & Mallot, H.A. (2012). Modeling errors in human
navigation. Workshop on modeling human and humanoid locomotion at the IEEE Biorobotics
Conferences.
Pape, A-A., Wolbers, T., Schultz, J., Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2011). Grid cell remapping in
humans. 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.[included into “hot topic” media
materias]
Barnett-Cowan, M., Meilinger, T., Vidal, M. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010) Path integration in the third
dimension. XXVI Bárány Society Meeting.
Meilinger, T., Souman, J.L. & Bülthoff, H.H. (2010). Asymmetrien und die Konstruktion von
Überblickswissen. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
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Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Holzer, S. Brescani, J.-P. (2009). The situational influence of
location and body orientation on the recall of survey knowledge. 4th International Conference on
Spatial Cognition.
Frankenstein, J., Mohler, B. Bülthoff, H.H. & Meilinger, T. (2009). Distance and alignment effects
in survey knowledge of a highly familiar city. European Conference on Visual Perception.
Meilinger, T., Frankenstein, J., Holzer, S. Brescani, J.-P. (2009). The influence of the current
situation on the recall of survey knowledge: the case of location and body orientation. European
Conference on Visual Perception.
Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Frankenstein, J., Laharnar, N., Hardieß, G., Mallot, H.A. &
Bülthoff, H.H. (2009). Place naming – examining the influence of language on wayfinding. 31st
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Meilinger, T. (2008). Human orientation in Space: Distinguishing spaces, memory systems, and
reference frames. Beitrag auf der 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.
Meilinger, T., Schulte-Pelkum, J., Laharnar, N., Teramoto, W., Frankenstein, J. & Bülthoff, H.H.
(2008). Orientation biases in memory for vista and environmental spaces. 9. Fachtagung der
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.
Meilinger, T. & Vosgerau, G. (2008). Conceptions of Space – an Interdisciplinary Exchange.
Symposium at the 9. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.
Wiener, J.M., Meilinger, T. & Berthoz, A. (2008). The integration of spatial information across
different perspectives. 9. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.
Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., Laharnar, N., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). Orientation dependency in
memory for environmental spaces. Proceedings of the 15th Meeting of the European Society of
Cognitive Psychology.
Meilinger, T., Brösamle, M., Hölscher, C., Wilbertz, G., Büchner, J., & Sprenger, H. (2007). Wie
viel Information brauchen wir? Selbstlokalisation und Wege finden mit schematisierten Karten. 49.
Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., Laharnar, N., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). Long-Term Memory for
Environmental Spaces – the Case of Orientation Specificity. 10. Tübinger
Wahrnehmungskonferenz.
Büchner, S. J., Hölscher, C., & Meilinger, T. (2006). Wie komm ich da jetzt hin? Der Einfluss von
Navigationshilfen und Strategiewahl auf das Bewegungsverhalten in einem komplexen Gebäude.
48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Meilinger, T. (2006). Orientation with maps: memory systems, memory content and strategies.
29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Meilinger, T., Widinger, A., Knauff, M., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2006). Verbal, Visual and Spatial
Memory in Wayfinding. 9. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz.
Hölscher, C., Meilinger, T., Vrachliotis, G., & Brösamle, M. (2005). Maps, Room Numbers and
Wayfinding Strategies: Investigations in a Vertically Complex Building. Proceedings of the
Conference on Spatial Information Theory.
Meilinger, T., Knauff, M., Widiger, A., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2005). Gedächtnissysteme beim Finden
von Wegen in einer virtuellen Umgebung. 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2004). Ask for your way or use a map? A field study.
Interdisciplinary College 2004.
Meilinger, T. & Knauff, M. (2004). Nach dem Weg fragen oder Karte studieren, was ist besser?
Ein Feldexperiment. 46. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
Krüger, H., Totzke, I., Meilinger, T., & Rauch, N. (2002). Die Bedeutung der visuell-räumlichen
Repräsentation für das Erlernen von Informationssystemen. 44. Tagung experimentell arbeitender
Psychologen.
Meilinger, T., Totzke, I., & Krüger, H.-P. (2002). Kompetenzerwerb von Informationssystemen:
Fehleranalysen und Leistungsvorhersage. 44. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen.
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Non peer-reviewed de la Rosa, S. & Meilinger, T. (2015). Können Sie mir sagen, wie ich zum Ziel komme? Die
publications Interaktion räumlichen und sozialen Denkens. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 2015.
Meilinger, T. & Doeller, C. (2009). Von A nach B. Gehirn und Geist, October 2009, 54-59.
Meilinger, T. (2008). Strategies of Orientation in Environmental Spaces. Berlin: Logos Verlag.
(Ph.D. thesis)
Meilinger, T., Riecke, B. E., Berger, D., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2007). A novel immersive virtual
environment setup for behavioural experiments in humans, tested on spatial memory for
environmental spaces. MPI Technical Report, 158.
Totzke, I., Krüger, H.-P., Hofmann, M., Meilinger, T., Rauch, N., & Schmidt, G. (2004).
Kompetenzerwerb für Informationssysteme – Einfluss des Lernprozesses auf die Interaktion mit
Fahrerinformationssystemen. Veröffentlichter Abschlussbericht (Förderkennzeichen BaSt FE
82.196/2001). Technical Report.
Meilinger, T. (2002). Kompetenzerwerb von Menüsystemen als multikodierter Prozess. Diploma
thesis, University of Würzburg.
Research
management
5 research projects JSPS project (Japanese Research Foundation) “Spatial integration from views and maps”, role: PI,
financial and personal organization, reporting
DFG-project (German Research Foundation) “Survey knowledge”, role: PI, financial and personal
organization, reporting
EU-project “Wayfinding”, role: researcher, financial and personal organization, reporting
DFG-project “MapSpace” within the SFB TR/8 “Spatial Cognition”, role: researcher, contribute to
financial planning, reporting and (successful) follow-up proposal
BASt-project (German Federal Highway Research Institute) “Bäume und Sträucher im
Straßenverkehr” – trees and bushes in traffic, role: researcher, reporting
2 symposia “Individual differences in wayfinding” together with Ineke van der Ham & Jan Wiener, VI
International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2015
“Conceptions of Space – an Interdisciplinary Exchange” together with G. Vosgerau, KogWis 2008
Reviewing
grants Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), Agence National de la Recherche (ANR,
France), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, UK), Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF, Switzerland),
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Austria), Israel Science Foundation
(ISF, together with S. de la Rosa and H.H. Bülthoff), Minerva Center for Excellence (GermanyIsrael, together with H.H. Bülthoff ), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI, together with H.H.
Bülthoff)
journals Cognition, Scientific Reports, PLoS One, British Journal of Psychology, Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied,
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Psychonomic
Bulletin and Review, Learning and Individual Differences, Acta Psychologica, Memory &
Cognition, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Haptics,
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Behavioural Brain Research, Journal of Cognitive
Psychology, Cognitive Processing, Adaptive Behavior, Journal of Spatial Information Systems,
Spatial Cognition and Computation, Presence, Environment and Planning B, Scandinavian Journal
of Psychology; Adaptive Behavior, Language and Cognition, Psychologia, Psyche, Advances in
Cognitive Psychology, International Journal of GIS, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception,
Behavioral Sciences
confernces Cognitive Science Conference, Spatial Cognition Conference, Media Psychology Conference,
EuroAsianPacific Cognitive Science Conference, IEEE – VR
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Academic selfadministration
Member in Group Leader Board, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Department for
Perception, Cognition and Action (institute’s organization and development including recruitment)
Representative for phD and postdoc training in the department
Member of teaching board at the Graduate School for Neural and Behavioral Science (coordinate
courses, select prospective students)
Elected student representative Würzburg University (University board member, student tutor,
organize 1st year introduction, talks, and student library)
Leadership
Co-group leader of (since 09/2013)
5 PhD students
6 master students
5 bachelor students
3 research assistants
Higher education
training
Habilitation in Psychology (German high school teaching certification from the University),
estimated 12/2015
Baden-Württemberg Zerifikat für Hochschuldidaktik, Modul 1, (public certificate on high school
teaching), 60 hours
e-learning, 8 hours
Teaching
6 lectures “Perception, Cognition and Behaviour” together with Marc Himmelbach and Ziad Hafed, spring
2015
“Psychologie für Nebenfachstudierende” (Psychology for non-psychology students), fall 2014
“Perception, Cognition and Behaviour” together with Marc Himmelbach and Ziad Hafed, spring
2014
“Perception, Cognition and Behaviour” together with Marc Himmelbach and Ziad Hafed, spring
2012
“Perception, Cognition and Behaviour” together with Marc Himmelbach and Martin Giese, spring
2011
“Perception, Cognition and Behaviour” together with Marc Ernst and Marc Himmelbach, spring
2010
5 courses/seminars “Human mobility, cognition and GISc” together with Dan Montello, Ole B. Jensen & Stefan van
der Spek, fall, 2015
“Advanced Statistics” together with Stephan de la Rosa and Jan Souman, fall 2009
“Cognitive and computational psychophysics” together with colleagues from the MPI for
Biological Cybernetics, spring 2009
“Raum“ (space) at the Forum Scientiarium of the University of Tübingen together with Matthias
Neuber (Philosophy), fall 2007
“Psychophysics of cognitive processes“ together with colleagues from the MPI for Biological
Cybernetics, fall 2006
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Supervision
2 PhD Marianne Strickrodt (Psychology) “Regionalization in environmental knowledge” (ongoing)
Thomas Hinterecker (Psychology) “Humans in 3D“ (ongoing)
4 master/diploma theses Julia Frankenstein (Psychology, Tübingen University) “The Map in Our Mind – Effects of
Alignment and Distance in Memory for Highly Familiar Environments”
Anna-Antonia Pape (Max Planck Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Sciences) “Grid cells
in environmental spaces”
Caroline Leroy (Cognitive Science Tübingen University) “Spatial Memory in 3D”
Johannes Kurz (Cognitive Science, Tübingen University) „Social influences on perspective
taking” (ongoing – Co-supervision with Martin Butz)
3 bachelor theses Edgard Jung (Psychology, Innsbruck University), “Influence of body orientation and gaze
direction on distance estimation to avatars”
Bianca Siefredi (Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück) “feelSpace II – multimodal
perception with a new sensory modality” (Co-supervision with Peter König)
Chantal Horeis (Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen) “View integration within rooms”
(ongoing)
2 placement years Agnes Henson (Psychology, Cardiff University) “The acquisition of human survey knowledge”
Mary O’Malley (Psychology, Cardiff University) “Mental models vs. mental walk”
11 internships Celia Foster (Neuroscience, Tübingen), Simone Kurek (Cognitive Science, Tübingen University),
Marianne Strickrodt (Psychology, Giessen University), Caroline Leroy (Cognitive Science,
Tübingen University), Katsuhisa Kawaguchi (Neuroscience, Tübingen), Jon Rebane,
(Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen), Kasia Krawczyńska (Psychology, Warsaw University),
Sandra Andraszewicz (Cognitive Science, Utrecht University), Sophie Peschke (Biology,
Tübingen), Max Bäuerle (Biology, TU Berlin), Laura Engelhardt (Art).
International
collaborations
Stays abroad The University of Tokyo, Prof. Watanabe, 1year
Collège der France, Paris, Prof. Bethoz, 2 months
Collaboration partners Christoph Hölscher (Cognitive Science), ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Ruth Rosenholtz & Christa Ehinger (Psychology / Computer Science), MIT/Harvard Medical
School, USA
Katsumi Watanabe & Kohske Takahashi (Cognitive Science), The University of Tokyo, Japan
Betty Mohler (Computer Science), Stephan de la Rosa (Psychology), Heinrich H. Bülthoff
(Biology), MPI Tübingen, Germany
Thomas Wolbers (Neuroscience), DZNE Magdeburg, Germany
Hanspeter A. Mallot (Biology), Stephan Schwan, Markus Huff, Frank Papenmeier (Psychology),
Tübingen University, Germany
Ruth Conroy Dalton (Architecture), Northumbria University, UK
Jan Wiener (Biology), Bournemouth University, UK
Ineke van der Ham & Albert Postma (Psychology), Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jean-Pierre Bresciani (Psychology), CNRS/ Grenoble/Fribourg University, France, Switzerland
Manuel Vidal (Computer Science), CNRS/Marseille University, France
Michael Barnett-Cowan (Psychology), Waterloo University, Canada
Julia Frankenstein (Psychology), Mannheim University, Germany
previous: Kai Florian Richter & Alexander Klippel (Computer Science/Geography), Bremen
University, Germany
previous: Mark Vollrath, Ingo Totzke, Hans-Peter Krüger (Psychology), Würzburg University,
Germany
CV Tobias Meilinger – p. 8
Invited
presentations
6 workshops “Spatial integration within large-scale spaces”, iNAV 2016, 1st Interdisciplinary Navigation
Symposium, 26/6/2016
“Human navigation in virtual large scale spaces”, Bernstein Sparks Workshop on Multi-modal
closed-loop stimulation and virtual realities, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Munich, 26/6/2015
“Compartmentalization in spatial memory”, Vespucci Initiative Workshop on “Brain and Space”,
Lisboa, Prof. Taube, Wolbers Fiete, Câmara & Shinazi, 3/9/2014
“Reference frames for environmental spaces” at the Winter Workshop on Coordinate Frames for
Visual Stability, Reading University, 5/12/2011
Commentator on Michael Bratman “Acting over Time – Acting Together” at the Rational Agency
Workshop, University of Tübingen, 6/6/2011
“Local and global reference frames in survey knowledge acquired from navigation and maps”
Workshop spatial behaviour and linguistic representation, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, 23/4/2010
3 public lectures “Orientierung im Raum”, part of a public science lectures on visual perception, Tübingen
University, 7/5/2015
“Navigation und Gehirn. Wie wir wissen wo wir sind und wohin wir wollen”, ERES-Foundation
for the communication between art and science, Munich, 2/2/2015
„Wie navigieren wir in Städten und Gebäuden?“, Rotary Club Reutlingen-Tübingen Nord,
14/2/2012
19 colloquia “Navigation in cities and buildings”, Giessen University, Prof. Fiehler, 15/7/2014
“Spatial integration”, Freiburg University, Prof. Ferstl, 26/6/2014
“Spatial cognition – different processes for different kinds of spaces”, CerCo/CNRS, Toulouse,
Prof. Barbau, 12/11/2013
“Navigation in environmental spaces”, The University of Tokyo, Prof. Ishikawa, 7/5/2013
“Spatial integration”, Kyoto University, Prof. Altmann, 5/3/2013
“Spatial integration within environmental spaces” at the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition Colloquium
Freiburg/Bremen/Münster/Buffalo, 9/12/2011
“How do we memorize everyday environments and use this memory for pointing and selecting
routes?” Freiburg University, PD Christoph Hölscher
“Situated maps” University of California Santa Barbara, Prof. Hegarty, Prof. Montello, 24/8/2010
“Spatial cognition and virtual characters” University of Bielefeld, Prof. Wachsmuth, 5/5/2010
“Situatedness in spatial cognition” Giessen University, Prof. Knauff, 4/11/2009
“Situatedness in spatial cognition” Collège de France, Prof. Berthoz, 27/6/2009
“Raumkonzepte in der Psychologie“ (conceptions of space in Psychology) Helmut Schmidt
University Hamburg, Prof. May, 29/2/2008
“Do humans use metric maps for environmental large scale spaces?“, Collège de France, Prof.
Berthoz, 21/11/2007
“Orientierung im Raum“ (orientation in space), University of Würzburg, Prof. Krüger, Prof.
Hoffmann, 25/6/2007
“Orientierung im Raum mit Karten – wie Menschen ihren Weg von A nach B finden“ (orientation
in space with maps), DLR Braunschweig, PD. Dr. Mark Vollrath, 9/9/2006
“Memory for environmental spaces“, University of Freiburg, Prof. Strube, 21/6/2006
“Memory for environmental spaces“ , University of Tübingen, Prof. Mallot, 7/6/2006
“Psychophysik der Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle“ (Psychophysics of the man-machineinterface), Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, 3/4/2006
“How to reach a goal – strategies and representations in wayfinding“, University of Tübingen,
Prof. Mallot, 13/12/2004
CV Tobias Meilinger – p. 9
Dissemination
Participation in Open house day Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (2x)
dissemination Open house day Tübingen University
activities Girls day (3x)
School internships (6x)
Interviews and reports Radiokolleg, Ö1 (radio) 3/2014
Wo bin ich, Süddeutsche Zeitung (newspaper), 12/2013
Interview, SWR4 (radio), 3/2012
Various reports about the „Map in the head paper“ e.g., New York Times, Le Monde, Süddeutsche
Zeitung, 1&2/2012
Interview, Deutschlandfunk (radio), 12/2011
Interview, Süddeutsche Zeitung (newspaper), 11/2011
Wo geht’s lang. Geolino (kids magazine), 09/2011
Impuls, SWR2 (radio), 07/2011
Orientierungssinn. Apotheken Umschau (magazine), 01/2011
Kartensatz im Kopf. Max Planck Forschung (scientific magazine), 09/2010
Virtuelle Welt zum Anfassen. Gehirn und Geist, Issue 7-8 (scientific magazine), 08/2008
Orientierungssinn: Gleiches Ziel, verschiedene Wege. Apotheken Umschau (magazine), 06/2008
Nano, 3Sat (tv), 08/2007
Faszination Wissen, BR (tv), 07/2007
Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (German Psychological Society)
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (German Cognitive Science Society)
Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer (Humboldt Alumni Society)
Non-academic
job experience
Civillian service (replaced obligatory military service) in a school for mentally handicapped
children (15 months)
Internship in a consultant company (4 months)
Internship in the neuropsychology section of an university hospital (2 months)
Internship with a psychological consultant for prisoners (2 months)
CV Tobias Meilinger – p. 10