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
• since 1999: University of Leiden, Chair of General Psychology
• since 2000: Head of Cognitive Psychology Unit

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

• Editor-in-Chief Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung
• Editor-in-Chief Frontiers in Cognition
• Consulting Editor Perception and Psychophysics
• Consulting Editor Psychological Science

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
• since 1997 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- Co-director of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
• 2008- Secretary of the Association for Attention and Performance