Speaker Profile

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Arkar Hein is an environmental designer and practitioner-researcher whose work exists at the intersection of spatial design, cognitive science, and the built environment. He holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Architecture, along with a Master of Science degree in Neuroscience and Education from Columbia University. His research includes a VR and EEG-based study on perceptual spaciousness, as well as co-authored work on spatial memory in Alzheimer’s populations. Arkar actively participates in the peer review process for journals that publish neuroarchitecture research, focusing on the evidentiary standards that connect neuroscience findings to architectural design recommendations. His work is grounded in a central belief: claims about how environments shape the nervous system deserve the same level of evidentiary rigor as the scientific research they are based on, especially when those claims influence decisions about the spaces where people live, learn, and work.​