Curriculum Vitae

 

Jan Theeuwes PhD

 

 

 

Name:                           Theeuwes

First Name:                    Jan

Affiliation                      Department of  Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Telephone:                     +31 20 598 8790

Fax:                              +31 20 598 8832

Email:                           J.Theeuwes@psy.vu.nl

 

Academic Training

Ph.D. Experimental Psy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1992 (cum laude)

M.A., Experimental Psy & Ergonomics, Tilburg University, Tilburg 1987 (cum laude)

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, HTS Technical College, 1981

 

Employment

2003- present     Research Director Faculty of Psychology and Education VU

1999- present     Full Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

1998                 Head Department Information Processing TNO-Human Factors

1996-1997         Sabbatical year University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

1993‑1997         Research Leader Traffic Behavior Group TNO-Human Factors

1988‑1993         Researcher, TNO HFRI

 

Grants

·         NWO program grant: Top-down and bottom-up control of visual selection. (2003-2007)

·         NWO Grant: No-Change No-Blindness: Efficient detection of non-changing elements (2004-2008)

·         NWO-STW Grant: Multi-Sensory Displays (2005-2009)

·         Human Frontiers Science Program grant: Neural substrate of bottom-up and top-down attentional integration 2005-2008

 

PhD students

·         Richard Godijn, R (2003). Competition and Inhibition in the Oculomotor System [judicium: cum laude].  

·         Wiekse Van Zoest (2004) The time course of stimulus-driven and goal-driven control in saccadic visual selection

·         Karen Mortier (2006)

 

Committee member of PhD theses (since 2000)

  • Filip Germeys (Leuven) 2000
  • Fookie Cnossen (Groningen) 2000
  • Sander Nieuwenhuis (UvA) 2001
  • Sander Martens (Leiden) 2001
  • Menno vd Schoot (Klinische Neuropsychologie VU) 2001
  • Caleb Owens (Sydney Australia) 2002
  • Anouk Scheres (Klinische Neuropsychologie VU) 2002
  • Stefan Huijbregts (Klinische Neuropsychologie VU) 2002
  • Rogier Landman (UvA) 2003
  • Valerie Brown 2004 (University of Durham, Durham, UK)
  • Paul Khayat (UvA) 2004
  • Mark Nieuwenstein (Utrecht) 2004
  • Jose van Velzen (Groningen) 2005
  • Jurjen van der Helden (Groningen) 2005
  • Heleen Slagter (UvA) 2005
  • Janneke Jehee (UvA) 2005
  • Ryota Kanai (Utrecht) 2005
  • Catharine van Meel (VU) 2005
  • Taco Horsley (VU) 2005
  • Aave Hannus (Nijmegen) 2006
  • Roos Houtkamp (UvA) 2006

Professional Services:

Associate Editor:

·         Perception & Psychophysics (1994-1998)

·         European Journal for Cognitive Psychology (2001-2004)

Consulting Editor:          

·         Perception & Psychophysics (1999- present)

·         Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance (1996-present)

·         Visual Cognition (2005- )

·         Acta Psychologica (2005- )

Ad hoc Reviewer for

·         Accident Analysis & Prevention

·         Acta Psychologica

·         Biological Psychology

·         Cognitive Brain Research

·         Cognitive Psychology

·         Cognition  

·         Developmental Psychology

·         Emotion

·         Experimental Brain Research

·         Ergonomics

·         Human Factors

·         Journal of the Optical Society of America

·         Journal of Neurophysiology

·         Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

·         Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

·         Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

·         Nature

·         Neuropsychologica

·         Neuroscience

·         Memory and Cognition

·         Psicologica

·         Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

·         Psychological Research

·         Psychological Science

·         Psychophysiology

·         Psychology & Aging

·         Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

·         Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

·         Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

·         Trends in Cognitive Science

·         Visual Cognition

·         Vision Research

 

Ad hoc Reviewer for      

§         BBSRC, UK

§         EURYI Awards

§         KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences)

§         Member of the Dutch NWO referentencollege (since 2004)

§         National Science Foundation, Washington DC

§         Nationaal Fonds v Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Belgie

§         The Israel Science Foundation

§         The Ran Naor Foundation

§         The Wellcome Trust

 

Affiliations                     Psychonomic Society, USA (full member)

                                    American Psychological Society (full member)

                                    European Society for Cognitive Psychology (full member)          

                                    Dutch Psychonomic Society

 

Organizer of:                  European Diploma in the Cognitive and Brain Science (EDCBS)

                                    2000-2001; 2003-2004; 2005-2006

 

Award:                          Bertelson Award from the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2001