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Education
1953-1962 Business apprenticeship. Diploma in management. Employment in electronics and chemical industries; Professional photographer. Junior engineer in merchant navy, Certified Radio Operator, Navy School of Telecommunication. Radio-Officer in the merchant navy.
1962 Preliminary introductory Course (Præliminæreksamen): Ahms Kursus, Copenhagen.
1963-1965 Studying classical languages: Statens og Hovedstadskommunernes Kursus, Münstersvej, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen.
1966 Filosofikum: University of Copenhagen.
1968 M.A. (Psychology), Psykologisk Laboratorium, University of Copenhagen.
1971 Mag.Art.: Psychology (Approx.: Ph.d): Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
1977 Doctor of Philosophy (Dr.Phil.). Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus. Subject: “Psychological Differentiation”.
Professional Appointments
1968-1970 Instructor, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Subjects: Personality and Social Psychology.
1971-1972 Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Subjects: Personality and Social Psychology.
1972-1974 Research fellowship (see below).
1974-1975 Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Subjects: Experimental Psychology, Psychophysics, Early Cognitive Development, Differential Psychology.
1974-1975 Associate Professor, Royal Danish School of Higher Education, Aarhus, Denmark. Subjects: Ego Development, Role Theory, Cultural Influences on Behaviour, Group Dynamics
1975-1976 Associate Professor, Open University, Aarhus Subjects: The Developing Personality; The deviant person.
1976-1977 Research fellowship (see below).
1977-1979 Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Subjects: Nature-Nurture problems, Behavioral Genetics, Differential Psychology.
1979-1980 Research Fellowship (see below)
1980-1984 Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Subjects: Neuropsychology, Personality Development, Behavioral Genetics, Differential Psychology.
1982-1983 Director, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
1984-1985 Research Fellowship (see below)
1986-2006 Founder and Director: “The International Research Center for PsychoNeuroEndocrinology”, Institute of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark.
1987 Research Fellowship (see below).
1988-1989 Research Fellowship (see below).
1990-2006 Chairman: Department of Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark.
1994-2007 Professor of Developmental and Child Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark.
2005-2007 Chairman: Individual Difference Research Unit (IDRU).
2007– Retired professor Emeritus.
Awards and Fellowships
1970-1971 Scholarship, Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Sponsor: Professor, Dr.phil. Gerhard Nielsen: Subject: Experimental studies of the development of individual differences in spatial abilities and in Optic-Vestibular(-Somesthetic) interaction.
1972-1975 Medical Research Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry, Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital, Risskov, Denmark. Sponsor: Professor, Dr.med. Mogens Schou, Subjects: Psychopharmaco-therapy, Studies of individual perceptual, intellectual, and personality development in children with sex chromosome abnormalities.
1976-1977 Senior Research Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute of Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen, West Germany. Sponsored by the “Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung”, Bonn, West Germany. In cooperation with Professors, Dr. rer. Nat. Hermann Schöne and Horst Mittelstaedt. Subjects: Experimental studies of the development of perceptual strategies in optic-vestibular (somesthetic) conflict solutions in man and animal; Studies of cybernetic models for evolution, Developmental ethology.
1979-1980 Senior Research Fellowship, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England. Sponsored by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities, Copenhagen. In cooperation with Professor Jeffrey Gray, Subjects: Psychoneuroendocrinological studies of perceptual, intellectual, and personality development.
1984 Visiting Professor, NATO Senior Research Fellowship combined with a Fulbright Stipendium, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado, USA. In cooperation with Professor J.R. Wilson: Subjects: Behavioral Genetics, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Developmental Neurobiology. 1985 Visiting Professor, The Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. In cooperation with Professor June Reinisch, Subjects: Prenatal development, Effects of sex hormones on body, brain, and behavior, Sexual orientation.
1987 Senior Research Fellowship (with support from Research Foundation for the University of Aarhus) at The Department of Child Health and Development, University of London. In cooperation with Professors James Tanner and M. Preece: Subjects: Models for child development, The diagnosis and treatment of childhood disorders, Sex hormonal correlates of prenatal and later development.
1989-1990 Visiting Professor, The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, New York, USA. In cooperation with Professor Bruce McEwen, Subjects: Experimental studies on neuroendocrine development and learning in the rat: A test of the General Trait Covariance Model, Developmental psychoneuroendocrinology, Revision of the traditional nature-nurture model.
1992 Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. In cooperation with Professor Gene Sackett, Primate Research Center: Subjects: Neuroendocrine aspects of behavioral development in non-human primates: A test of the General Trait Covariance Model, Animal development.
1994 Visiting Professor, Institute for Psychiatric Research, Department of Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus. In cooperation with Professor, dr. med. Raben Rosenberg, Subject: Sex hormones and psychotic development.
1998 Visiting Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark. In cooperation with Professor in Theoretical Physics, Benny Lautrup, Subjects: Mathematical Dimensioning of Molecular models.
1998 Visiting Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. In cooperation with Professors George Cowan and Steen Rasmussen (Los Alamos National Laboratory). Subject: Mathematical Dimensioning of Molecular models.
2000 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. In cooperation with Professor Arthur R. Jensen, Graduate School of Education. Subject: Linear hierarchical models of intelligence.
Professional, Community and Public Activities
Member: Danish Magister’s Association. Scandinavian Association for Researchers in Theoretical Psychology.
Behavioral Genetics Association. (Served on membership committee 1983-7). The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (Serving on Committee for Ethical Principles 1984-9; Ex Officio Board of Directors 1995-1999; Board of directors 1999-2005; Nominated president 2007). The International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (until 2000) University Committees (Board of Studies, various sub-committees, director of Ph.d studies 2001).
Chairman: International Conference on “The Neuropsychology of Learning Disorders”, Korsor, Denmark, June 15-18, 1975. Chairing session on “Physiological and Biochemical Correlates to Learning Disorders”.
Organizer and Chairman: Symposium on “Biological, Social, and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Sex-Specific Cognitive Development”, International Society of the Study of Behavioural Development, University of York, Toronto, Canada, August, 1981.
Chairman: Symposium on “Hormonal Aspects of Psychosomatic Obstetrics/Gynecology, Twenty-First Congress of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York, USA, August 20-24, 1990.
Organizer and Chairman: Symposium on “Hormones, Intelligence, and Personality Development”, The Sixth Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Baltimore, MA., 17-21 July, 1993
Organizer and Chair: The VIII Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, University of Aarhus, Denmark, July 20-24th., 1997
Chairman: Symposium on “Secular changes in intelligence”, co-sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences and the Behavioral Genetics Society, June 2000, University of Vancouver, Canada.
Editorial Consultant: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Clinical Endocrinology. Intelligence. Perceptual and Motor Skills. Personality and Individual Differences. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Editorial board: Neuropsychobiology 2012 – Member of the Scientific Board for The Ulster Institute for Social Research, London.
Other
1960 Olympic Bronze Medal Winner in kayak, Rome, 1960: 4 x 500 meter Relay. (Click for picture take immediately before the final competition)
