Professor Jurģis Šķilters is the Chair and Senior Researcher at the Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems at the Science and Technology, University of Latvia. His main research interests are visual perception, spatial cognition, links between different perceptual domains, emotions, and mathematical modelling of spatial and socio-spatial processes. After obtaining his doctoral degree from the University of Mainz, Germany, he has been conducting research and lecturing in several countries (Latvia, Italy, USA, Israel, Norway, Belgium to mention just a few). He has been visiting professor in USA and Italy. During the last 15 years, he has been a director or co-director of several international European and transatlantic research projects.
Prof. Šķilters is the founder of the first international Cognitive Sciences' center in Baltics. He is author or co-author of more than 100 peer reviewed publications and volumes. He is recipient of University of Latvia Research Prize 2021. 2020 he delivered Whitehead Lecture in Cognition, Computation and Culture at Goldsmiths College, London. Currently he co-chairs projects on neurodegenerative, fatigue-related, and developmental constraints on perception and cognition.