Dr. Katja Zibrek
I am an ISFP Researcher at Inria Rennes, France. My main area of investigation is the perception of virtual humans in Virtual Reality. I use the methods from psychology and computer science to understand the impact of virtual human on users' subjective and behavioral response.
Contact
Dr. Katja Zibrek
Inria, VirtUs team
E-mail: katja.zibrek@inria.fr
Campus de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Short CV
Professional experience
| Dates | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - | ISFP - Starting Faculty Position at Inria | Inria, Rennes, France |
| 2021 - 2023 | MSCA-IF Postdoctoral Researcher: project ForEVR | Inria, Rennes, France |
| 2020 - 2021 | Starting Research Position | Inria, Rennes, France |
| 2017 – 2019 | Postdoctoral researcher | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
Education
| Dates | Level | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 – 2017 | Doctorate Computer Science | School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| 2004 – 2010 | Diploma (B.Sc. + M.Sc.) Psychology | Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Awards
| Award | Description |
|---|---|
| European Funding | Individual Fellowship under the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, project ForEVR H2020-MSCA-IF-2020; No. 101030793; amount: 184 707.84 EUR. Start date: September 2021 |
| Best paper awards | Title: “Investigating perceptually based models to predict importance of facial blendshapes’’ Granted by: Motion, Interaction and Games conference, on 18th October 2020. Title: “Is photorealism important for perception of expressive virtual humans in VR?” Granted by: Symposium on Applied Perception, on 20th September 2019. | Best poster awards | Title: “May I sit next to you? The effect of motion quality of virtual agents on the proximity in virtual reality’’ Granted by: Motion, Interaction and Games on 14th November 2021. |
| Best presentation award | Title: “Exploring the effect of emotions on gender perception”, granted by: Symposium on Applied Perception, on 23rd August 2013; award prize: €75. |
| “Presern award” Faculty award for exceptional/innovative diploma thesis | Title: “The influence of the virtual environment on the emotional state and the feeling of presence in this environment”, granted by: Univerza v Ljubljani, on 2nd December 2010; award prize: €80 |