prof.dr. E.H.F. (Edward) de Haan - University of Amsterdam

Edward de Haan (1957)...

Qualifications. Edward de Haan (1957) trained as a clinical neuropsychologist in Groningen , the Netherlands (1983). In the same year, he moved to Oxford to work with Freda Newcombe at the MRC Neuropsychology Unit in the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . He finished his PhD on face recognition disorders in 1988, co-supervised by Andy Young,. Presently, he holds clinical qualifications in the UK (BPS clinical practicing certificate & Full practitioner clinical neuropsychology) and the Netherlands (Governmental BIGregister: GZ-diploma, Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist).

Appointments. He currently holds a Chair in Neuropsychology at the University of Amsterdam , combined with the managerial role as Dean (see below). From 1991 until the 2008, he was Professor in Neuropsychology at Utrecht University . Collaboration with the medical faculty lead to the award of a research chair in Neurology at the Academic Hospital in Utrecht .

Research. His research interests range from applied clinical neuropsychological issues to fundamental neuroscience, particularly visual, auditory and somatosensory perception, memory, emotion, and consciousness. His work on the (preconscious) processes involved in the perception of faces, colour and brightness has attracted considerable attention. He publishes extensively on the neurocognitive basis of hallucinations in neurological and psychiatric populations. His clinical research has focussed on the neuropsychological sequelea of stroke, diabetes mellitus, and schizophrenia. His studies demonstrated the viability, reliability and prognostic value of neuropsychological assessment in the acute phase after stroke.

He has supervised some 38 PhD students and served as external examiner of over 60 PhD theses. He is a Fellow of the BPS, and recipient (2007) of the Medal of Honour of the Dutch Society of Psychonomics. He is (co)applicant of grants totalling many millions of Euros, from European Union, British and Dutch sources.

Publications. He is (co)author of over 200 scientific papers and chapters and (co)editor of four books. He has been a member of four editorial boards ( Cortex, Neuropsychology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Visual Impairment Research). In 2006, he accepted the position of founding editor of the Journal of Neuropsychology (BPS).

Management. Since the beginning of 2008, he has been Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, at the University of Amsterdam . As Dean, he is responsible for 1200 staff, approximately 8000 students, and six departments: Educational Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Political Sciences, Geography, Anthropology and Communication Sciences. In Utrecht , he was Head of Department of Experimental Psychology (1994 - 2001) and subsequently Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Perception Research (2001- 2005), a national research school facilitating collaboration between experimental psychology, medicine, physics and biology.

He has served on the boards of several national and international learned societies (e.g. International Neuropsychological Society, Dutch Psychonomics Society), and scientific advisory boards (e.g. Institute for Language Research, Max Planck Institute forPsycholinguistics, FC.Donders Neuro-imaging centre, the Leiden Institute for Brain & Cognition).

Web of Science: General Search, December 2007

Nr. of papers: 170
Sum of times cited: 3,664
Average citations per item: 21.55
H-index: 34

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Qualifications

State University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- June 1976 - First year Applied Physics
- June 1979 - 'Kandidaats' degree in Psychology
- August 1983 - 'Doctoraal' degree in Clinical Psychology

University of Lancaster
November 1988 - Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, Lancaster, UK

British Psychological Society
January 1990 - Clinical Practice Certificate (No.K22DF7)

BIG-Registry (Netherlands)
January 1999 -Clinical Psychologist (GZ)

British Psychological Society
January 2000 - Full Practioner Neuropsychologist

Appointments

February 2008 - Dean & Professor of Neuropsychology
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam

April 2007 - February 2008 - Research Chair Neuropsychology
at the Neurology Department, University Medical Center Utrecht

September 2003 - February 2008 - Programme Director
MSc Neuropsychology, Graduate School of Psychology, Utrecht University

September 2002 - February 2008 - Programme Director
Prestige MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School Life Sciences, Utrecht University

January 2001 - December 2005 - Scientific Director
Helmholtz Institute and School

January 1999 - February 2008 - Appointed B-professor Neuropsychology

June 1994 - June 2001 - Professor & Head of Department (full-time)
Psychological, Laboratory, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

June1994 - May 1996 - Honorary Research Consultant
Russell-CairnsHead Injury Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

December 1991 - May 1994 - Research Director (half-time)
Russell-Cairns Head Injury Unit,
Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford, UK

February 1991 - May 1994 - Professor (half-time)
Psychological Laboratory, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

July 1989 - November 1991 - Research Fellow
Department of Psychology, Science Laboratories, Durham University, South Road, Durham,UK

August 1984 - June 1989 - Senior Research Officer
MRC Neuropsychology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, WoodstockRoad, Oxford, UK

February 1982 - July 1984 - Research Officer
Department of Neuropsychology, University Hospital, Groningen, the Netherlands

Management

Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Amsterdam (2008 – present).

Chair of the Utrecht Research Focus on the ‘Brain, cognition and behaviour’ (2007 - 2008).

Member of the Scientific Council (‘Fachbeirat’) of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (1999 – present).

Member of the Scientific Council of the OTS Research Institute for Language Processing in Utrecht (2002 – present).

Co-founder of the FC Donders Centre for Cognitive NeuroImaging, and member of the board (2002 -2006).

Member of the Board of the School of Social and Behavioural Studies (2002 – 2004).

Member of the Dutch Research Council for Behavioural Sciences (NWO BAC) (2001 – 2002).

Member of the NWO-Large Investments committee (2003 - present).

Member ofthe NWO-VICI committee (2002 & 2003) .

Member of the Quality Assessment Exercise for Psychology 2000/2001 (VSNU visitatie commissie Psychologie).

President of the 'Nederlandse Vereniging voor de Psychonomie’ [Dutch Psychonomics Society] (1996-2003).

Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Dutch Psychonomics Society (2005 - present).

Member of the Board of the Vivian Smith INS Summer school (2002 - present).

Member of the Board of Governors of the International Neuropsychological Society (1997- 2001).

Member of the Board of the Dutch Neuropsychological Society (1995-2003).

Chair of thePost-doctoral Education Committee of the Dutch Psychological Society [NIP] (1999-present).

Member of the Bachelor/MasterAccreditation Committee of the University of Utrecht (2000-2002).

Member of Medical-Ethical Committee of the University Medical Centre Utrecht (2002 - 2007).

Honorary Secretary of the Congress of Professors in Neuropsychology (1996-present).

Chair of the Curriculum Committeefor the Specialty of Clinical Neuropsychology.

Co-director of the Russell-Cairns Head Injury Unit in Oxford, UK (1991-1994).

ChairoftheBoard of Headsof Departments ofthe Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands (1995-1998).

Member of advisory committees for the Ministry of Education (OCW) and Health (VWS).

Awards

‘Ere penning’ Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie 2007.

David de Wied lecture, Utrecht 2006.

Fellow of the British Psychological Society (Member No. 35029).

Winner of the 1994 BPS Cognitive Psychology Award.