Jan Strelau#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 291 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
Jan Strelau passed away September 4, 2020.
Positions Held
- 2009 Vice-Rector for Research, SWPS, Warsaw
- 2002 - 2009 Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, SWPS, Warsaw
- 1997 Professor of Psychology, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Warsaw
- 1993 - 2001 Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Silesian University, Katowice
- 1982 - 2001 Senior Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, UW
- 1976 - 1982 Full Professor, IP, UW
- 1968 - 1976 Associate Professor, IP, UW
- 1963 - 1968 Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology (IP), UW
- 1963 Ph.D., psychology Univ. Warsaw (UW)
Fields of Scholarship
- Behavior genetics
- Psychology
- Personality
- Individual differences
- Temperament
Honours and Awards
- 1986 - 1991 Corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Since 1991 Ordinary (full) member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Since 1998 External member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- Since 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1996 Honorary Doctor degree (doctor honoris causa) from the University of Gdańsk, Poland
- 1998 Honorary Doctor degree from the State University of Humanistic Sciences in Moscow, Russia
- 2006 Honorary Doctor degree from the University of Poznań, Poland
- Since 2000 Honorary Member of the Polish Psychological Association
- Since 2002 Honorary President of the Committee for Psychological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Humboldt Research Award for foreign academics in recognition of "outstanding international achievements in personality research" (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany)
- 1992 Max Planck Research Award for "international outstanding research achievements”; together with Professor Alois Angleitner, University of Bielefeld, Germany (The Max Planck Society, Germany)
- 1997 New Europe Prize 1997 for Higher Education and Research (jointly administered by six Centers for Advanced Studies – Stanford, Princeton, North Carolina, NIAS, Uppsala and Berlin)
- 2000 Award of the Foundation for Polish Science 2000 in the domain of Humanistic and Social Sciences (so-called "Polish Nobel" Prize) for developing an original, regulative theory of temperament and especially for the book: Temperament: A psychological perspective (Plenum Press, 1998)
- 2009 The Prime Minister Prize for Distinguished Scientific Achievements
