Dr. Alexander Klippel – founded ChoroPhronesis, is the Gosnell Senior Faculty 
Scholar, Associate Professor for Geographical Information Science at the Department of Geography at Penn State, associate Head and Director of Graduate Studies. He also holds an affiliate position at the Information Sciences & Technology department. His research interests center on multidisciplinary topics at the interface between spatial cognition and GIScience, especially the area of 3D modeling and VR, geographic event conceptualization and the integration of cognitive factors into formal characterizations of dynamic spatial processes.
Before Alex came to Penn State he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the CRC for Spatial Information, Geomatics Department, and was a founder member of the Spatial Information Science Research Group, The University of Melbourne. He also spent time at the Geography Department and Cognitive Science Emphasis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Alex received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Bremen, co-authored the project MapSpace which is part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre for Spatial Cognition and worked in the AspectMap project (Spatial Cognition Priority Program, German Science Foundation). He started his Ph.D. studies in Hamburg at the Graduate Program for Cognitive Science.
Dr. Danielle Oprean – At the time of the project, Danielle was the coordinator of the Immersive Environments Lab (IEL) and 
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing in the Stuckeman School (Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Graphic Design). Danielle is currently an assistant professor in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri.
Her research interests the systematic evaluation of user experience afforded by visualization and virtual technologies, the relative impact of collaborative interfaces on team membership and communication, visualization and development of multi-modal simulations for spatial understanding, and spatial cognition and human-computer interaction.
Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media Visualization (2005), dual Masters in Engineering Technology (2007) and Design with Digital Media in Architectural Studies (2010), and a PhD in Human Environmental Studies with a focus in Design with Digital Media (2014). She has experience in setting up large-scale immersive environments: iLab at the University of Missouri (2009-2014), Duet Lab at Cornell University (2013), and the IEL at The Pennsylvania State University (2014-2018).
Mark Simpson – is a 5-year PhD student who joined Penn State in Fall 2015. His research interests include virtual reality, spatial cognition, and geographic visualization. Mark received his Bachelor in Geography from New Mexico State University in 2012, and worked as a Geospatial Analyst for a federal subcontractor in Albuquerque, NM before joining the department. 
