John A. Michon#
| Membership Number: | 357 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.jamichon.nl |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2003 Emeritus professor, Leiden University
- 1998 - 2002 Senior research professor of psychonomics at Leiden University
- 1992 - 1998 Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Criminality and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Leiden and research professor of criminal psychology and law enforcement at Leiden University
- 1971 - 1992 Professor and chair of experimental psychology and professor of traffic science at the University of Groningen
- 1960 - 1973 Research scientist at the (then) TNO Institute for Perception in Soesterberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Cognitive psychology
- Psychophysics
- Ergonomics
- Traffic safety
- Behavioural sciences
- Temporal structure of cognition and (skilled) performance
Honours and Awards
- 1965: NATO Science Fellowship
- 1975: Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar
- 1977: Honda Foundation Lecturing Award, Japan
- 1981: Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 1989: Member, Academia Europaea (London)
- 1989: Honorary promotor for Allen Newell’s doctorate honoris causa, Groningen University
- 1995: Doctor honoris causa, Université de Liège, Belgium
- 1996: Member, Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste (Salzburg)
- 2002: Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2002: Honorary member, International Society for the Study of Time
- 2005: Medal of honour, Netherlands Psychonomics Society
