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Dr. Simon Büchner

Lecturer and Course Coordinator Life Sciences

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Dr. Simon J. Büchner studied Cognitive Science and Philosophy in Freiburg and Cognitive Psychology in Amherst, Massachusetts, supported by scholarships from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He then worked in interdisciplinary research projects on human spatial navigation and received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Freiburg. As a graduate student, he was a visiting researcher at Concordia University, Montréal.

Dr. Büchner is responsible for the Major Life Sciences. This includes the development of the curriculum, the course offerings per semester, recruiting and supporting Teaching Fellows, as well as thesis supervision.

  • 2024 Co-Chair of the spring school Interdisciplinary College “IK2024 – Resilience, Robustness, Responsibility”
  • 2023 E-Teaching Fellowship of the University of Freiburg “Expansion of the online course Pandemics: Determinants and Management.”
  • 2020 Awarding of the Julie Johnson Kidd Travel Research Fellowship
  • 2020–2022 DAAD IVAC project VirtualLAS (Pandemics in History; Pandemics – Detection, Containment, Control)
  • 2017–2020 Erasmus+ project CREATES (Creating Responsive, Engaging and Tailored Education with Students): Problem-Based Learning, Research-Based Learning
  • since 2012 Lecturer and Course Coordinator for Life Sciences, University College, University of Freiburg
  • 2010 Dissertation and Disputation (Dr. phil.) in Psychology, University of Freiburg, Title: “Environmental Structure, Mental Representations, and Path Choice Heuristics – Information Processing in Wayfinding”.
  • 2008 Visiting Researcher at Concordia University, Montréal, QC
  • 2005–2012 Research Assistant in the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition – Project R6-[SpaceGuide] at the Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg
  • 2003–2005 Master of Science in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  • 2000–2003 Undergraduate studies of Education, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg