Omar Jubran, M.Sc.
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
| Phone | + 49 (0)631 / 205 3629 |
|---|---|
| ojubran(at)rhrk.uni-kl.de | |
| building | 57, Room 538 |
Curriculum Vitae
| 2024 - Present | Senior research Scientist at Center for Cognitive Science, RPTU in Kaiserslautern - Landau |
| 2018 - 2024 | Research scientist at RPTU in Kaiserslautern - Landau (formerly TU Kaiserslautern), Developmental Psychology & Cognitive Science |
| 2015-2018 | Study of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Kaiserslautern (Master of Science) |
| 2009-2015 | Study of Bio-medical Engineering at the German Jordanian University - Amman, Jordan (Bachelor of Science) |
Areas of Interest
In my research, I bridge cognitive science, immersive technology, and human-computer interaction. I investigate dynamic cognitive processes, using distributional analyses of behavior no navigate the time course of decision-making. In addition, I replicate classical psychology experiments in Virtual Reality (VR) in different collaborative projects. A key focus of mine is developing novel methods for tracking and analyzing continuous behavioral data.
In addition to research, I teach courses that help students with technical and methodological skills for research, including:
• Basics of programming in MATLAB, focused on experimental design.
• Research Methods in VR, covering use of motion tracking in psychological experiments.
• Mentoring graduate students through lab rotations and Master theses, collaborating with colleagues across cognitive science, engineering, and HCI.
Featured Publications
Huettig, F., Jubran, O., & Lachmann, T. (2025). The virtual hand Paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions. Brain Research, 149592. doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2025.149592
Jubran, O. F., Wolkersdorfer, M. P., Eymann, V., Burkard, N., Czernochowski, D., Herrlich, M., Van Leeuwen, C., & Lachmann, T. (2025). Spatiotemporal survival analysis for movement trajectory tracking in virtual reality. Scientific Reports, 15(1). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91471-5
Omar Jubran, Eda Monaco, Lais Muntini, and Thomas Lachmann. 2024. The "bizarre" object effect in Virtual Reality: A comparative serial recall study. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2024 (ECCE '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3673805.3673806
Jubran, O. F., Wolkersdorfer, M. P., Eymann, V., Burkard, N., Czernochowski, D., Herrlich, M., … Lachmann, T. (2024, June 27). Spatiotemporal Survival Analysis: Elucidating the Benefits of Virtual Reality Trajectory Tracking. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6spkw
Jubran, O. F., Rocabado, F., Muntini, L., DuñAbeitia, J. A., & Lachmann, T. (2022). Reproducing Classical Priming, Flanker, and Lexical Decision Tasks in VR. ECCE '22: Proceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. https://doi.org/10.1145/3552327.3552362