Dr. Michal Gath Morad

Biography

Michal Gath-Morad is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge's Department of Architecture, where she directs the Cambridge Cognitive Architecture research group. She holds a PhD in cognitive science and focuses her research on how architecture influences spatial cognition. Her work includes developing evidence-based design tools derived from behavioral findings and examining how these factors affect architects' thought processes and design communication. Additionally, she is an honorary research associate at UCL's Space Syntax Lab and serves as a fellow and director of studies in architecture at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Gath-Morad has also been a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Cognitive Science at ETH Zurich. Her current research projects include Simulation-Powered Co-Design of Resilient Built Environments, supported by a Post.Doc Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and cogARCH, which links cognition with architecture, funded by an ETH innovatum grant. Gath-Morad's research interests encompass evidence-based design architecture, simulation-powered co-design in urban contexts, wayfinding, spatial cognition, and design cognition pedagogy.

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