Leo J.G. van Wissen#
| Membership Number: | 3687 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.nidi.nl |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010,11 - now Director, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute KNAW-NIDI, The Hague.
- 1999,12 - now Professor in economic demography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen
- 1991 - 1999 Senior Researcher, NIDI
- 1988 - 1991 Research Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW
- 1988 - 1991 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Free University, Amsterdam
- 1989 - 1990 Chargé de Cours invité, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 1988 - 1989 Research specialist: institute for Transportation Studies ITS, University of California at Irvine UCI, United States
- 1982 - 1987 Junior Researcher, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Free University, Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Aging and longevity
- Spatial interaction modelling
- Forecasting
- Economic-demographic interactions
- Demography of Firms and enterprises
- Demography, especially analytical modelling of demographic processes
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Member of the Social Sciences Council of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Member of the Council of Advisors of Population Europe, the European network of leading Demographic Institutes
- 1990 Prix Phillippe Aydalot 1990: International prize awarded by the Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française
- 1987 Research Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
