Bernhard Hommel'

Bernhard Hommel's Curriculum Vitae

Personal facts & Education

19. March 1958 born in Niederstotzingen, Germany
1969-1977: Herderschule (Gymnasium) Kassel, Abitur
1980-1987: University of Bielefeld, Studies in Psychology, Literature, and Linguistics
1987: University of Bielefeld, Diplomarbeit (Master's Thesis): Untersuchungen zur Funktion visueller und semantischer Information bei der Wort/Bild-Interferenz [Investigations on the function of visual and semantic information in word-picture interference]
1990: University of Bielefeld, Dissertation: Quellen der Interferenz beim Simon-Effekt: Eine Untersuchung zur Verwendung räumlicher Information bei der Auswahl und Planung einer einfachen Handlung [Sources of interference in the Simon effect: An investigation on the use of spatial information in selecting and planning a simple action]
1997: University of Munich, Habilitation: Handlungskonzepte: Über die kognitive Repräsentation menschlicher Handlungen [Action concepts: On the cognitive representation of human action]

Professional Career

1987-1990: University of Bielefeld, Research Assistant
1990-1999: Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Senior Researcher
1997-1999: Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Head of Working Group on Executive Functions
1997-1999: University of Munich, Privat-Dozent
1999-: University of Leiden, 99-16: Chair of General Psychology
2020-: Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
2020-: TU Dresden

Teaching

University of Bielefeld (1987-1990):
Introductory courses (cognitive psychology); seminars on ecological approaches to cognition, perception and action control, intermodal perception, systems theories of action control, and reasoning; experimental courses on intermodal perception and on ideomotor phenomena.
University of Munich (1990-1998):
Introductory courses (cognitive psychology); seminars on report and article writing, history of psychology, perception and action, motor control, executive processes and intentional control, animal cognition; experimental courses on intermodal perception and action planning.
Leiden University (1999-):
Research projects (cognitive psychology); seminars on attention, perception and action, action control, motivation, and emotion.

Editorial Activities

Current

Past

Action Editor Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Action Editor Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: A
Co-Editor Acta Psychologica
Associate Editor Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain & Cognition
Associate Editor Psychology Science
Editorial Advisory Board Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung

Committees & Functions

1988-1990 Speaker of the Senior Scientists, Dept. of Psychology, University of Bielefeld
1993-1997 Member of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society
1995-1997 Member of the Foundation Committee of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
1996-1999 Member of the Mediation Committee of the Max Planck Society
1997-1999 Speaker of the Association for Experimental Research on Cognition
1997-2007 Organizing Committee and Speaker of the DFG Priority Program "Executive Functions"
2003-2008 Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of European Society for Cognitive Psychology
2006-2016 Co-director of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
2008- Secretary of the Association for Attention and Performance
2017-2024 Speaker/scientific director of the DFG Priority Program “The active self”
2018-2020 President of the European Society for Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience
2017- Senator of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)