Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Robert-Jan Simons

P. Robert-Jan Simons graduated in Psychology (developmental and educational) at the University of Amsterdam in 1973 and worked as a researcher in the universities of Amsterdam, Nijmegen and Tilburg. His PHD on the role of concrete analogies in learning took place at Tilburg University (1981). From 1990 to 2001 Simons was professor of educational psychology at the University of Nijmegen, where he directed the Research Institute for Pedagogy and Education. Since 2001 he has a chair at Utrecht University focusing on learning with ICT. From 2006 - 2010 he was dean of the IVLOS institute of Education at Utrecht University. Since 2010 he is director of the Netherlands School of Educational Management (NSO), an institute based in Amsterdam that educates school leaders.

1. Name

Prof. Dr. P.Robert-Jan Simons,

born May 15^th 1949,

Nationality: Dutch

Married with Petra H. Smulders

5 children (born in 1977, 1981, 1984, 1997, 2003)

2. Present address

Netherlands School of Educational management (NSO), Linnaeusstraat 35F 1093 EE, Amsterdam (Wen-Fri)

Faculty of Social Sciences Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 8, room 389, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands (Mon-Tue)

3. Key Qualifications/ Fields of expertise

1. Psychology of learning: learning theories, learning styles, powerful learning environments, collective learning, communities of practice
2. Work – related learning: human resources development, learning on the job, organisational learning, learning organisations, organisational change
3. Information technology and learning: digital pedagogy, competencies of teachers and counsellors, on-line communities, electronic learning environments
4. Developmental Psychology: cognitive development, social development, personal and personnel development

4. Summary of work experience

1973 – 1974            Junior researcher at the department of developmental psychology of the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

1974 – 1979            Junior researcher at the department of developmental psychology of the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

1979 – 1990            Junior and later Senior researcher in educational psychology at Tilburg University (the Netherlands)

1986 – 1999            Director of Studies of the master program “management of learning and development) at TIAS business school of Tilburg University (the Netherlands)

1990 - 2001             Professor of educational psychology, especially work related learning at the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

1997 – 2001            Director of the Research Institute NUOVO in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands)

1993 – 1995            President of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)

2001 – present         Chair in Learning with ICT, Utrecht University (the Netherlands)

2001 – 2010            Director of Centre for ICT in education Utrecht University(the Netherlands)

2006 – 2010            Dean of the IVLOS institute of Education

2010 – present         Director of the Netherlands School of Educational Management (NSO)

5. Educational record

1967: Gymnasium Beta

1973: M.Sc. in developmental / educational psychology at the University of Amsterdam

1981: PHD in educational psychology at Tilburg University. Title”: By way of comparison: the role of metaphors in learning