Biographisches

Prof. Dr. (Emerit.) Johannes Engelkamp

 

 

Business Address

Saarland University

Psychology Department

Campus A2 4

D-66123 Saarbrücken

 

engelkamp(at)mx.uni-saarland.de

Biography

Date of Birth

April 4, 1937

Place of Birth

Hagen, Germany

Education
  • Diplom Free University Berlin, 1969, Psychology
  • Dr. phil. Ruhr-University Bochum, 1972, Psychology
  • Dr. habil. Ruhr-University Bochum, 1974, Psychology
Teaching Interests

Experimental Cognitive Psychology

Research Interests

Memory, Word and Sentence Processing, Cognitive Architecture

Professional Employment and Experience

1969 - 1970

Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Psychological Department, Free University Berlin

1970 - 1972

Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Psychological Department, Ruhr-University Bochum

1972 - 1975

Akademischer Rat at the Psychological Department, Ruhr-University Bochum

1975 - 2001

Full Professor for Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

1978 - 1982

Chair of the Department of Psychology

1992 - 1994

Dean of the Faculty Social and Environmental Sciences

1992 - 2000

Member of the Graduate Programme Cognitive Science at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken

1992 - 2002

Member of the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 378 Resource-adaptive cognitive processes at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken

1996 - 1997

Chair of the Department of Psychology

1997 - 1999

Vice President of the Saarland University

1994 - 1998

Member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology

1998 - 2000

President of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology

2000 - 2002

Vice-President of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology

2002

Retired Professor for Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbr�cken

Professional Associations

  • American Psychological Associations

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie

  • European Society for Cognitive Psychology

  • Psychonomic Society

Honors and Awards and Service on National Committees

1985 - 1986

Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, NL

1988 - 1989

Academic Stipend of the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk

1992 - 1996

Elected Internal Reviewer of the German Science Foundation for General and Physiological Psychology

1994 - 1995

Academic Stipend of the German Science Foundation

1984 - 1996

External Reviewer of the German Science Foundation for the SFB Speaking and Language Comprehension in Social Context

1986 - 2000

External Reviewer of the German Science Foundation for several special research programs (e.g. Cognitive Linguistics, Information Processing in Social Context, Cognitive Development)

Editor for

  • Psychological Research

    1979 - 1996

    Associate Editor

    1996 - 2000

    Managing Editor

    2001 - 2002

    Associate Editor

  • Psychologische Rundschau

    1996 - 2000

    Managing Editor

  • Sprache und Kognition

    1982 - 1986

    Associate Editor

    1987 - 1990

    Managing Editor

    1991 - 1996

    1987 - 2002

    Consulting Editor

    Grants

    • German Science Foundation (DFG)

      1978 - 1981

      Sentence-Picture Interaction (En 124/1)

      1981 - 1984

      Sensory and Motor Components of Memory (En 124/5)

      1984 - 1988

      Verb-Noun Comparison (with H. Zimmer, En 124/7)

      1988 - 1994

      Remembering (with H. Zimmer, En 124/8)

      1990 - 1994

      Size Comparison (En 124/9)

      1994 - 1995

      Memory for Action Events (En 124/11)

      1995 - 2000

      Sensory Features of Objects (with H. Zimmer, Zi 308/2)

      1996 - 2001

      Verbal and Visual Working Memory (SFB 378/A3)

      1997 - 2002

      Remembering Actions(with H. Zimmer, En 124/13)

    • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

      1986 - 1989

      Imagery and Memory (Interaction with Michel Denis, CNRS, Paris, 311-Pro)

      1991 - 1993

      Visual Memory and Size Comparison (Interaction with Robert Logie, University of Aberdeen, UK, 312-ARC)

      1992 - 1993

      Scanning Mental Maps (Interaction with Manuel de Vega, University of La Laguna, Spain, 322-Ai)

      1995 - 1996

      Subject-performed Tasks and Sign Language (Interaction with Marc Marschark, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA, 315-Pro)

    • HCM Research Networks

    1994 - 1997

    Imagery, Language and Representation of Space (Interaction with Michel Denis, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay; Cesare Cornoldi, University of Padova; Robert Logie, University of Aberdeen; Manuel de Vega, University of La Laguna CHRX, CT 94)