> PhD in Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU,University of Muenster)
> MSc. in Geospatial Technologies, Erasmus Mundus (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; University of Münster, Germany; Universitat Jaume 1, Spain)
> MS Geography, University of the Philippines Diliman
> BS Geography, University of the Philippines Diliman

> Specialization: Cognitive and Behavioral Geography, Geospatial Technologies, Hazards and Vulnerability Research, Geographic Education
> GIScience Research Interests: Wayfinding, Spatial cognition, geospatial learning, Participatory GIS, disaster studies, geovisualization

> Geog 1 (Places and Landscapes in a Changing World)
> Geog 151 (Geography of Europe)
> Geog 197 (Digital Cartography)
> Geog 192 (Field Methods)
> Geog 198 (Special Topics = Cognitive and Behavioral Geography: Wayfinding)
> Geog 199 (Seminar: Research methods)
> Geog 243 (GIS in the Social Sciences)
> Geog 211 (Seminar in Geography Special topics = Spatial Cognition)

Scholarships, Awards and Grants:

> DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) PhD full scholarship Grant – 2011
> European Commission, Erasmus Mundus Masters inGeospatial Technologies, full scholarship grant (2008)
> Duo-France Programme (Egide and French Embassy) Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) –  > > Institute Universitaire Europèen de laMer (IUEM), 2003 and 2004 exchange program

> UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair Award (2021, 2023)
> One UP Faculty Grant 2022-2024
> UP Diliman Centennial Faculty Grant (2022)

Best Paper and Poster Awards:

> Anacta,VJA, Humayun, MI, Schwering, A. Map-off the city: How uncertain places are represented in sketch maps. Poster presented at 18th AGILE International Conference. Lisbon, Portugal, June 8 – 12, 2015. (Best Poster Award)  
> Anacta,VJA, Bartoscheck, T. It’s Girls Day! What sketch maps show about girl’s spatial knowledge. Poster presented at the 17thAGILE International Conference. Castellon, Spain, June 2-6, 2014. (Best Poster Award) 
> Schwering, A, Li, R., Anacta,VJA. Orientation Information in Different Forms of Route Instructions. 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. 2013. Leuven, Belgium, 14-17 May 2013. (Best Short Paper Award)

Research Funding

> PhD Incentive Award, OVCRD UP Diliman 2020 and 2023
> German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded Wayfinding Through Orientation project, 2014-2018
> German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2011-2014

Journals

> De Guzman, M.T., Martinez, M.S., Garcia, E., Palis, J., Anacta, V.J., Cadag, J.R., Amorsolo, D.S., Ocampo, L.A., and Gutierrez, D. (2024). Integrating service-learning in geography in Philippine higher education. Pennsylvania Geographer. 62:2, 1-22.
> Anacta V. J. A.(2024). Spatial learning using Google Streetview in an online wayfinding task. Research in Learning Technology, 32. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v32.3067 
> Anacta, VJA (2022). Illustrating shared features of students’ cognitive image of a university campus, Journal of Urban Design, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2112513
> Anacta,VJA(2020) Learning Unfamiliar Routes with Relative and Absolute Instructions: Analyzing Human Wayfinding Performance and Sketch Maps, Journal of Geography, 119:6, 226-237, DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2020.1821242  
> Krukar,J, Anacta,VJA, Schwering,A.2020.The effect of orientation instructions on the recall and reuse of route and survey elements in wayfinding descriptions, Journal of Environmental Psychology,Volume68, 2020, 101407,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101407. 
> Anacta, VJA,  Schwering, A., Li,R and Muenzer, S.2017. Orientation information in wayfinding instructions: Evidences from human verbal and visual instructions. GeoJournal.82:3, 567-583. DOI: 10.1007/s10708-016-9703-5
> Schwering,A.Krukar, J.Li,R. Anacta,VJA, Fuest,S.2017. Wayfinding Through Orientation.Spatial Cognition and Computation. 273-303.

Conference, Abstract and Workshop Papers

> Anacta V. (2024) WhatYou Read Is What You Learn: Following Different Types of Route InstructionsISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2024: OfficialConference Proceedings (pp. 299-306), Tokyo, Japan. https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2024.25.
> Anacta,VJA, Understanding the environment: Investigating spatial knowledge throughhuman descriptions. Southeast Asia Geography Association Conference 2020.Bangkok, Thailand. June 27-20, 2023.
> Anacta, VJA. Remembering the way: Depicting route information after an urban outdoorwayfinding task. International Conference on Geographical Sciences (ICGS 2024).Nov. 15- 16, 2024. University of the Philippines Diliman 
> Anacta, VJA. Tell me how to get there through this place: Following Route Instuctionsgenerated by Google maps and humans. International Conference on GeographicalSciences (ICGS 2023). Nov. 24- 25, 2023. University of the Philippines Diliman. 
> Anacta, VJA. What Sketch Maps say about student’s spatial knowledge of the campusenvironment. National Conference on Geographical Sciences (NCGS 2019). Nov. 15-16, 2019. University of the Philippines Diliman.
> Anacta V.J.A., Li R., Löwen H., De Lima Galvao M., Schwering A. (2018) Spatial Distribution of Local Landmarks in Route-Based Sketch Maps. In: Creem-Regehr S., Schöning J., Klippel A. (eds) Spatial Cognition XI. Spatial Cognition 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3_8
> Krukar J., Münzer S., Lörch L., Anacta V.J.A., Fuest S., Schwering A. (2018) Distinguishing Sketch Map Types: A Flexible Feature-Based Classification. In: Creem-Regehr S., Schöning J., Klippel A. (eds) Spatial Cognition XI. Spatial Cognition 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11034. Springer, Cham.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3_19
> Li, R., Anacta V.J.A., Schwering A. (2017) Can You Follow Your Own Route Directions: How Familiarity and Spatial Abilities Influence Spatial Performance and Sketch Maps. In: Barkowsky T., Burte H., Hölscher C., Schultheis H. (eds) Spatial Cognition X. Spatial Cognition 2016, KogWis 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10523. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68189-4_3
> Anacta,VJA, Humayun, MI, Schwering, A. Krukar,J. Investigating Representations of Places with Clear Spatial Extent in Sketch Maps. In: Bregt A., Sarjakoski T., van Lammeren R., Rip F. (eds) Societal Geo-innovation. AGILE 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56759-4_1
> Anacta, VJA, Wang, J. Schwering, A. 2014. Routes to remember: Comparing verbal instructions and sketch maps. AGILE. Springer Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03611-3_18
> Anacta, VJA and  Schwering A. 2010. Men to the East and Women to the Right: Wayfinding with Verbal Route Instructions. C. Hölscher et al. (Eds.): Spatial Cognition VII, LNAI 6222, pp. 70–84, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_9
> Anacta,VJA,Krukar, J. Humayun, MI, Schwering, A. Visualizing salient features in spatial descriptions. Poster presented at  European Workshop on Image and Cognition(EWIC). Paris, France. June 6 – 8, 2016.
> Anacta, VJA,  Schwering, A., Li,R. Determining hierarchy of landmarks in spatial descriptions. Poster presented at  8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science. (GIScience). Vienna, Austria. Sept. 23-26,2014.
> Schwering, A, Li,R,  Anacta, VJA. The use of local and global landmarks across scales and modes oftransportation in verbal route instructions. Poster presented at 2014Spatial Cognition Conference. Bremen, Germany. Sept. 15-18, 2014.

> Foreign Language (other than English): German (Intermediate); French (Elementary); Spanish/Portuguese/Mandarin (Basic)

> Regional Language: Filipino, Waray