Harold Bekkering#
| Membership Number: | 4417 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ru.nl/english/people/bekkering-h |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002, Oct. Professor, Chair, Dept. of Cognitive Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 2015, May – Sept. Visiting Scientist, Psychology Department, Harvard, USA
- 2001 - 2002 Associate Professor, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen,
- 1995 - 2000 Senior Researcher, Dept. Cognition and Action, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany.
- 1994, January - July Visiting Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychology, Washington Univer-sity, St. Louis, USA
- 1991-1994 Ph.D., Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, Netherlands.
- 1989-1990 Research Assistant, Inst. of Human Factors (TNO), Soesterberg, Netherlands
- 1986-1989 Student Assistant, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Social Interaction; Social Learning, Imitation, Joint Action (since 1995)
- Social robotics; human-robot-interaction (since 2002)
- Language; Semantics and Social Interaction (since 2005)
- Learning and Development (since 2006)
- Neuro-Education; Neuro-based learning in Mathematics and Language (since 2015)
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Elected member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2015 Visiting Scientist, Harvard University (sabbatical)
- 2012 Gravitation Award, Language in Interaction (biggest research subsidy NWO, 27M, co-applicant)
- 2011 TOP, highest group award of NWO (main-applicant)
- 2008 Award from Summer School Students (EDCBS), Best teacher and organizer of Science Events
- 2005 VICI highest personal award of NWO,
- 1994 Visiting scholarship, Washington University, St. Louis, USA, Foundation “De 3 Lichten”
- 1994 - Poster prizes (~20 ) at conferences in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience
