Gerd Gigerenzer awarded Fellowship of the British Academy

The British Academy has selected 86 leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences for its 2024 Fellowship

Gerd Gigerenzer, Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam, has been awarded a Fellowship of the British Academy for 2024.  

The British Academy honors him for his outstanding contributions to field of decision making under uncertainty, the ecological rationality of heuristics, the intelligence of intuition, statistical reasoning in public health, risk communication and risk literacy.  

Of the 86 newly elected Fellows, 52 are from the UK and 30 from the USA, Canada, South Africa, Japan, China, Australia, Taiwan, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Israel. In addition, four Honorary Fellows have been elected in the fields of art, literature, journalism and film. The Fellows join a community of over 1700 distinguished scholars. The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.  

Further information about the Fellowship is available on the British Academy website.