Erik is an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University’s Centre for Digital Humanities Research; an Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Social Sciences, FABLE, at University of Western Australia; and Emeritus Professor at Curtin University. He was previously UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualization, and Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He was also CIC Visualization Theme Leader and Steering Committee member at the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC).
He is a chief investigator on four Australian Research Council grants (involving research infrastructures and cultural heritage), and an Australian Research Data Commons Platform Grant. He trained as an architect, an architectural historian, received a second masters (with honors) in philosophy, and his ARC Scholarship PhD was from two Faculties (Geomatics-Engineering and Architecture-Melbourne School of Design) with Lonely Planet as industry partner. He has been teaching multimedia since 1990. He specializes in virtual heritage and serious games.