Gerd Gigerenzer – Curriculum Vitae
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Curriculum Vitae
1974 Degree in Psychology (M.A.), LMU Munich
1977 Ph.D., Department of Psychology, LMU Munich
1982 Habilitation, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich
Positions
| 2024– | Vice president, European Research Council (ERC) |
| 2008– | Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, and since 2020 at the University of Potsdam. |
| 1997–2017 | Director (Managing Director, 2000–2001, 2005–2006, 2011-2014), Center for Adap-tive Behavior and Cognition (ABC), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
| 1995–1997 | Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich |
| 1992–1995 | Professor, Department of Psychology, and Committee for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, USA. |
| 1990–1992 | Professor of Psychology, University of Salzburg. |
| 1984–1990 | Professor of Psychology, University of Konstanz (Chairman, 1988–1989) |
| 1982–1984 | Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Munich. |
| 1977–1982 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Munich. |
Honors and Awards
| 2024 | Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) |
| 2024 | International Fellow, The British Academy |
| 2024 | Honorary Doctorate, University of Southampton, UK |
| 2024 | Inauguration of the “Gerd Gigerenzer Laboratory of Psychology”, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India |
| 2023 | getAbstract-Book Award 2023, Business Impact Award |
| 2023 | Harry H. Strasburger MD Award, Harvard Medical School, Program in Psychiatry & the Law |
| 2022 | Science Communication Medal, Max Planck Institutes Göttingen |
| 2021 | Society for Risk Analysis Distinguished Educator Award |
| 2021– | Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Section Global Health |
| 2020– | Member, Scientific Council of the European Research Council |
| 2020 | Best TED talk 2020 (2nd place), awarded by Duke University Annual Hindsight Awards |
| 2020– | Honorary Professor, University of Potsdam |
| 2019 | Allais Memorial Prize in Behavioral Sciences |
| 2018–2021 | Member, Tenure Board, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. |
| 2018 | Henry Walton Prize 2018 of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) |
| 2017 | Author’s colloquium: Exploring future directions of Gerd Gigerenzer’s scholarly contributions. Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University |
| 2016– | International Member, American Philosophical Society |
| 2016 | German Research Prize for General Medicine, 3rd Prize |
| 2016– | Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2016 | Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University |
| 2015 | Hufeland Award from the German Foundation for General Medicine (Stiftung Allgemeinmedizin) for improving knowledge and transparency in medicine |
| Cognition As Intuitive Statistics (1987, with David J. Murray) re-issued in Psychology Revivals, Psychology Press, honoring the most influential scholars of the last 120 years | |
| 2015 | Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions shortlisted for the Better Life Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society |
| 2015– | President, Herbert Simon Society |
| 2014 | GIKA Distinguished Scholar Award in Information and Knowledge Science |
| 2014 | Sage Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2014 | Patten Lecturer, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 2012 | Named one of the top 100 Global Thought Leaders 2013, 2013, & 2015, Gottfried Duttweiler Institute |
| 2012 | Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society |
| 2011 | Deutscher Psychologie-Preis |
| 2011 | Outstanding Paper Award 2011, International Journal of Forecasting, for "Fast and frugal forecasting” (with D. G. Goldstein) |
| 2011 | Communicator Award – Science Award of the Donors' Association, German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2011 | Honorary Fellow, Institute of Risk Management, UK |
| 2011 | Marsilius Medal, University of Heidelberg |
| 2009 | Honorary doctorate, Open University of the Netherlands |
| 2008 | Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Science |
| 2008 | Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books |
| 2008 | Launch of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, funded 2008 with 4.175 million euros from the Claudia and David Harding Foundation, London and 1 million euros from the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (Germany) in 2016 |
| 2007 | Honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.), University of Basel |
| 2007 | Business Book of the Year Prize (Wirtschaftsbuchpreis 2007) for Bauchentscheidungen (German translation of Gut Feelings ), awarded by the Handelszeitung |
| 2007 | Science Book of the Year Prize (Wissenschaftsbuch 2007) for Bauchentscheidungen (German translation of Gut Feelings ), awarded by Bild der Wissenschaft |
| 2005– | Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität Berlin |
| 2004– | Batten Fellow, Darden Business School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville |
| 2004– | Professor of the University Society, University of Munich |
| 2003 | Reckoning with Risk shortlisted for the Aventis Prize for Science Books |
| 2002 | Science Book of the Year Prize (Wissenschaftsbuch 2002) for Das Einmaleins der Skepsis (German translation of Calculated Risks ), awarded by Bild der Wissenschaft |
| 2000– | Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Section Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
| 2000– | Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 1999 | John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville |
| 1998– | Honorary professor, Free University Berlin |
| 1991 | AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Prize for Behavioral Science Research, 1991 (for "From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery in cognitive psychology", Psychological Review, 98, 254–267) |
| 1991–1992 | Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University (Project on “Biological foundations of human culture”) |
| 1989–1990 | Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA |
| 1987/1988 | Academy fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation |
| 1987 | Association of American Publishers Award for the best book in the Social and Behavioral Sciences ( The probabilistic revolution , MIT Press) |
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1987–1988
2002–2003 |
Visiting Fellow, Harvard University |
| 1985 | Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, Fall 1985 |
| 1984 | Fritz Thyssen Foundation Prize for one of the three best German journal articles in the social sciences (for “Der eindimensionale Wähler,” Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie ) |
| 1982–1983 | Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University (Project “The impact of the probabilistic revolution on the scientific conception of man and society” |
| Numerous grants from agencies including the Center for Advanced Study, Stanford; Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld; European Research Council (ERC); Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV); German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); German Research Foundation (DFG); David and Claudia Harding Foundation; Horizon 2020; Joachim Herz Foundation; Volkswagen Foundation; Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making; Swiss National Fund (SNF); Cassa Rurale, Italy; National Science Foundation (NSF); University of Chicago; Winton Capital; Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) |
Selected Invited Lectures
| 2024 | Opening lecture. Royal Air Force Leadership Conference, Cranwell, UK |
| 2019 | Nemmers Prize Conference, Northwestern University |
| 2019 | Nobel Week Dialogue. Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| 2019 | Keynote, 9th CFA Society India Conference, Mumbai |
| 2017 | Keynote. German Football Association (DFB), Hanover |
| 2017 | European Central Bank and Bank of Portugal, Lisbon. |
| 2016 | Bank of England Flagship Seminar, London. |
| 2016 | Keynote, Morgan Stanley 4th Annual Quantitative Equity Research Conference, New York |
| 2016 | Rothschild Lecture, Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge. |
| 2015 | Opening lecture, 132nd Congress of the German Society of Surgery (DGCH), Munich |
| 2014 | SAGE Center Lectures, University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| 2014 | Patten Lectures, Indiana University, Bloomington. |
| 2013 | TeDx Talk, Zurich |
| 2013 | 1st Honorary Herbert Simon Lecture, New York. |
| 2012 | Keynote, Annual Cognitive Science Conference, Sapporo. |
| 2012 | TeDx Talk, Norrköping |
| 2012 |
Institute for New Economic Thinking, Berlin |
| 2011 | World Science Festival, New York. |
| 2010 | Keynote, Reinhard Selten’s 80th Birthday Symposium, Bonn |
| 2009 | Herbert Simon Memorial Lecture. IAREP and SABE Joint Conference, Halifax, Canada |
| 2009 | APS William James Distinguished Lecture, Chicago. |
| 2008 | LSE Space For Thought Public Lecture. London School of Economics. |
| 2008 | Keynote, La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico. |
| 2007 | Keynote, 4th International Shared Decision-Making Conference, Freiburg. |
| 2006 | Keynote, China European Business School, Shanghai. |
| 2006 | Inaugural Peter M. O'Farrel Lecture on Original Thinking in Investing and Finance. The Boston Security Analysts Society. |
| 2004 | Keynote, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference, Whistler, Canada |
| 2004 | Keynote, Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Boston. |
| 2004 | Batton Fellow Lectures, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. |
| 2003 | Keynote lecture, 19th Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making (SPUDM), Zurich. |
| 2003 | Hilldale Lecture in the Social Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
| 2002 | Invited address, American Psychological Association, Chicago |
| 2002 | Public lecture, Old Theatre, London School of Economics. |
| 2002 | Keynote, German Medical Association, Cologne. |
| 2001 | Invited address, American Psychological Society, Toronto. |
| 2001 | Keynote, Siemens Knowledge Management Conference, Munich. |
| 2000 | Distinguished Speaker in Cognitive Science, Michigan State University, Lansing |
| 2000 | Keynote, International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm. |
| 2000 | Keynote, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA. |
| 1999 | Keynote, Pedagogical Psychology Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland. |
| 1999 |
Keynote, International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Belgirate, Italy |
| 1999 | Opening lecture, Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Leipzig |
| 1998 | Plenary address, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of California, Davis |
| 1998 | Taft Lectures, University of Cincinnati |
| 1998 | Plenary speaker, Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference, Vancouver. |
| 1997 | Savage Memorial Lecture, Bayesian Research Conference, Studio City, CA. |
| 1995 | Invited address, Society for Medical Decision Making, Tempe, AZ. |
| 1995 | Keynote, Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Bochum, Germany |
| 1993 | Invited address, Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making (SPUDM), Aix-en-Provence. |
| 1992 | Invited address, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, St. Louis, MO |
Professional Services
| 2024– | Member, Scientific Advisory Committee “Maths of Human Behavior” |
| 2023 | Member, UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) |
| 2023– | Member, Selection Committee Science x Media Tandems, Stiftung Charité, Berlin |
| 2023 | Member, ERCEA Steering Committee (European Research Council Executive Agency) |
| 2022– | Member, Editorial Board of the ERC Magazine (European Research Council) |
| 2021– | Member, “Lesson learned”, Interdisciplinary Working Group (IAG), German Academy of Sciences and Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2020– | Member of the Scientific Council of the ERC (European Research Council) |
| 2020 – | Advisory Board, Ethikverband der deutschen Wirtschaft (EDW) |
| 2020 – | Advisory Board, Z-Inspection |
| 2020– | Senior Editorial Board, yearly special issue on Macroeconomics and Development in Industrial and Corporate Change |
| 2020– |
Associated Faculty, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt |
| 2019– | Member, Expert Committee, “Democracy in a Digital Society Task Force”, ALLEA (All European Academies). |
| 2019–2020 | Jury member, Yidan Prize for Educational Research ($3.8 million). |
| 2018– | Member, “Zukunft der Medizin,” Interdisciplinary Working Group (IAG), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2018– | Member, “Recht und Ethik,” Lernende Systeme – die Plattform für Künstliche Intelligenz. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) |
| 2018 |
Guest Editor, PLoS ONE |
| 2017 | Continuing medical education (CME) classes for professors of medicine, certified with 7 points by the State Chamber of Physicians of Saxony |
| 2017– | Editorial Board, Elsevier Books Series “Perspectives on behavioral economics and the economics of behavior”. |
| 2016 | Jury member, German Prize for Economics, Joachim Herz Foundation |
| 2016– | Jury member, “Unternehmerisches Herz”, WirtschaftsWoche & Würth GmbH & Co. |
| 2016–2027 | Editorial Board, PsyCh Journal (China). |
| 2016–2017 | Risk Literacy Training for journalists. German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Robert Bosch Stiftung, Halle |
| 2015–2016 | Head of Advisory Board, Stiftung Gesundheitswissen. |
| 2015 | President, Herbert Simon Society |
| 2014– | Member, Ethics Panel, DVFA (Deutsche Vereinigung für Finanzanalyse und Asset Management). |
| 2014–2018 | Member, Advisory Council for Consumer Affairs, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen des Ministeriums der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz) |
| 2014– | Member, Jury for the Major Advancement in Psychological Science Award, International Union of Psychological Science. |
| 2014– | Advisor, AOK Gesundheitskasse. |
| 2014–2018 | Advisory Board, Bundesverband Managed Care e. V. (BMC). |
| 2014– | Editor for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). |
| 2014– | Editorial Board, International Journal of Psychology. |
| 2013– | Advisory Board, BERLIN.MINDS. |
| 2013– | Scientific Advisory Board, American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT). |
| 2013– | Editorial Board, Decision. |
| 2012– | Unstatistik des Monats (False statistics of the month), with T. K. Bauer & W. Krämer. www.unstatistik.de |
| 2012 | Expert testimony, Deutscher Bundestag, Hearing on bank capital requirements, Berlin. |
| 2011– | German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Taskforce “The relationship between science, the public, and the media” |
| 2011–2014 | Member, Inspire2Live Foundation, Amsterdam. |
| 2010 | Expert testimony, Deutscher Bundestag, Enquete Commission on Internet and Digital Society, Berlin |
| 2010– | Advisory Board, Risk and Security, Technical University of Munich |
| 2009–2017 |
Advisory Board, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University |
| 2009– | International Scientific Committee, Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educasión, University of Chile, Santiago |
| 2008 | Founding member, International Herbert A. Simon Society. |
| 2008 | Scientific Program Committee, 16th Cochrane Colloquium. |
| 2007– | Advisory Committee of International Scholars, Board of the APS Policies. |
| 2006–2013 | Advisory Board, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Forum. |
| 2006–2007 | Continuing medical education (CME) courses for 1,000 gynecologists in understanding health statistics (organized by Bayer-Schering), Berlin. |
| 2005– | Editorial Board, Psychological Inquiry. |
| 2005– | Advisory Board, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) |
| 2005–2017 | Advisory Board, Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment), Germany. |
| 2005 | Codirector, Winter Institute for Bounded Rationality, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. |
| 2004–2005 | Continuing education classes for 50 U.S. federal judges in decision making and risk communication. Continuing education program for judges (organized by George Mason University School of Law), Santa Fe 2004; Tucson 2005 |
| 2003 | Advisory Committee, British Medical Journal |
| 2002 | Program Committee, 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| 2001– | Codirector, Annual Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality. (2008-2009 together with Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.) |
| 1998– | Editorial Board, Evolution and Human Behavior. |
| 1996–2002 | Humboldt Research Awards Committee. |
| 1996– | Editorial Board, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. |
| 1993– | Editorial Board, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. |
| 1993–2000 | Editorial Board, Cognition. |
| 1990– | Coeditor, Theory and Psychology. |
| 1989–1992 | Coeditor, Psychologische Rundschau. |
Reviewer for:
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science; American Journal of Psychology; American Psychologist; American Statistician; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology; BMJ; Cognition; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Systems Research; Current Biology; Current Directions in Psychological Science; Decision; Developmental Psychology; Diabetologia; Economic & Social Research Council; Erlbaum Associates Publishers; European Psychologist; European Review of Social Psychology; Evolution & Human Behavior; Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology; German Psychological Society (DGP); German Research Foundation (DFG); Harvard University Press; Health Expectations; History of the Human Sciences; Human Behavior and Evolution; Humboldt Foundation Research Awards; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Business Research; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Economic Methodology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition; Journal of Management Studies; Journal of Mathematical Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Risk and Uncertainty; Journal of the Royal Society Interface; Journal of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease; Judgment and Decision Making; Lancet; Methods of Psychological Research-online; Memory & Cognition; Methodika; MacArthur Foundation; MIT Press; National Institute of Mental Health; National Science Foundation; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; New Ideas in Psychology; Österreichische Nationalbank; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Oxford University Press; Perceptual & Motor Skills; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Perspectives on Psychological Science; Philosophical Papers; PLoS ONE; PNAS; PsyCh Journal; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Methods; Psychological Review; Psychological Science; Psychological Science in the Public Interest; Psychologische Beiträge; Psychologische Rundschau; Psychometrika; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Risk Analysis; Royal Society Open Science; SAGE Open; Science; Science Signaling; Statistical Science; Swiss National Science Foundation; Synthese; Theory & Psychology; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; University of Michigan Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; Volkswagen Foundation; Weather, Climate, and Society; Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie; Zeitschrift für experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie; Zeitschrift für Psychologie; Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie.