Ola Svenson

Ola Svenson Date of birth: August 8, 1939. Risk Analysis, Social- and Decision Research Unit Department of Psychology, Stockholm University S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden and Decision Research, 1201 Oak Street, Eugene, Oregon 97401-3575 osn@psychology.su.se uppdated February 10, 2015 ______________________________________________________________________________ FIELDS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION: Judgment and Decision Processes, Risk Analysis, Traffic Safety, Human Factors, Organizational and Technological Aspects of Nuclear Safety. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1963-1968 Assistant teacher, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University 1968 - 75 Researcher, Department of Psychology , Stockholm University/The Swedish Council for Social Science Research. 1975-76 Full Professor of Psychology, University of Göteborg 1976-84 Researcher, The Swedish Council for Social Science Research. 1985-86 Visiting Researcher Decision Research. 1987-1993 Professor of Psychology, Main chair, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 1998 Halden OECD Reactor Project, Norway. Visiting Researcher (January - February). 1998 -99 Research Fellow Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, NIAS. 1993- 2009-07-01 Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. 2009 - 2013 Researcher, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon, USA. 2009 - Professor emeritus of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. 2014 - Emeritus Research Associate, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon, USA. POSITIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS (Selected past and present) American Psychological Association, foreign member. European Association for Decision Making, member, President 1997-98. European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, member. Human Factors Society, member. International Organization for Research in Economic Psychology, member. Society for Risk Analysis, International, fellow, honorary member, board member. Society for Risk Analysis, Europe, member, Distinguished Achievement Award 1997. Society for Judgment and Decision Making, member. Swedish Academy of Science, Radiation Protection, member. EDITORIAL BOARDS (Selected past and present) Acta Psychologica, Cognition Technology and Work, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Risk Analysis.

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