Introducing New Members: Dr. Eslam Nofal

Dr. Eslam Nofal has recently joined the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University as a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Heritage. He will be working closely with Dr. Vivian van Saaze and Prof. Sally Wyatt in the Terra Mosana project.

Eslam obtained an Erasmus master’s degree in Management of Cultural Heritage and Landscapes, and recently received his PhD degree in Architecture from KU Leuven, Belgium. His PhD thesis is titled: “Phygital Heritage: Communicating Built Heritage Information through the Integration of Digital Technology into Physical Reality”. 

His current research focuses on the utilisation of digital technologies for achieving better communication and engagement of heritage artefacts and museum collections, in particular the approach of tangible interaction. He has ample expertise in user studies and feedback-instruments, including co-design workshops and mixed-methods evaluation methodology such as observation, semi-structured interviews, sketching, and user experience questionnaires.