Willem Levelt#
| Membership Number: | 193 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpi.nl/people/levelt-pim/cv |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 Director Emeritus
- 1980 - 2006 Professor of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen University (special Max Planck Society chair)
- 1980 - 2006 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
- 2002 - 2005 President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 1976 - 1979 Leader of the Project Group for Psycholinguistics of the Max Planck Society, established in Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
- 1971 - 1979 Full Professor of Experimental Psychology, Nijmegen University (The Netherlands)
- 1971 - 1972 Member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1969 - 1970 Full Professor of Experimental Psychology and of Psycholinguistics, Groningen University.
- 1967 - 1968 Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, Groningen University
- 1965 - 1966 Research Fellow at the Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Human language acquisition and speech production
- "Mental lexicon"
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Holland Society of Sciences
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts
- Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- Member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Honorary Member of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF)
- Member of the American Philosophical Society
- Recipient Radboud Stichting award for junior scientists (1968)
- Recipient Hendrik Muller award for the Social and Behavioral Sciences of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (1993)
- Recipient of the Heymans award of the Dutch Psychology Association (NIP) (1996)
- Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America (1998)
- Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw (1998)
- Doctorate honoris causa, Maastricht University (2000)
- Doctorate honoris causa, University of Antwerp (2003)
- Recipient Silver Medal, Nijmegen University (2004)
- Doctorate honoris causa, University of Padua (2004)
- Doctorate honoris causa, Catholic University of Louvain (2005)
- Recipiet Medal of Honour, Netherlands Psychonomic Society. (2006)
- Honorary member of the Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie), Royal Dutch Academie of Arts and Sciences (2006)
- Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society (2007)
- Member of the Orden pour le mérite (2010)
- Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stern (Order of Merit) of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012)
- American Philosophical Society's Patrick Suppes Prize in the History of Science (2013)
