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Curriculum Vitae
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Personal information Dr. Andreas HEJJ, born April 12th 1956 in Zirc, Hungary. |
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Education
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1999 |
Extraordinary
professor [ausserplanmaessiger Professor] at
the Faculty of Psychology and Education in Munich |
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1993 |
I received my Habilitation (Prerequisite qualification for a university chair - Dr. phil. habil.) (Thesis: The challenges of early adulthood: Gender specific cognitions of profession, mate-selection and nationality) |
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1988 |
I was awarded my PhD (Dr. phil. [magna cum laude]) (Thesis: Is attitude a one-dimensional rating? - On validating multidimensional subjective spaces of representation) |
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1984 - 1988 |
Doctoral studies at the University of Munich. Major: Psychology, Minors: Psychopathology and English Psycho- and Sociolinguistics |
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1984 |
University Graduate (Dipl.-Psych. [Predicate: very good. Major: clinical psychology] Thesis done at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research (The structure of the semantic field "Mammals" in relation to subjects' age, knowledge and instructions) |
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1979 - 1984 |
Studies at the University of Munich (Psychology) During my studies I was a scholarship holder of the Institute for the Gifted of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation |
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1978 |
Internship in youth psychology in Readfield, Maine, U.S.A. (May – Sept) |
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1976 - 1977 |
Studies at the University of Munich (Psychology) During my studies I was a scholarship holder of the Institute for the Gifted of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation |
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1975 |
IHigh school graduation [Advanced Levels] at the Fazekas Mihály Grammar School in Budapest |
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1962 - 1975 |
Schooling at various English schools in Ghana and Nigeria due to my
father's work in foreign aid |
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International research projects
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since 2008 |
Cross validation of inter-group cognitions for the alleged causes and cures of tension between Hungarians and Gipsies |
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2001 - 2003 |
Research project to compare pupils' ability for social interaction and educational effectivity in two school-systems in Alto Adige, Italy: state school and Rudolph Steiner's Waldorf school. Development of an assessment centre fit for pupils |
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1998 |
Pilot project on initiation and mediation in traditional societies [based on personal experience in men's houses in Papua New Guinea and Yap, Micronesia]: Applicability for multicultural society |
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1994 - 1996 |
Research project on the social significance of human odour communication (in co-operation with the Faculty of Medicine in Munich, Prof. E. Pöppel & Prof. R. Hudson) |
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1992 |
Research project on communication in conflict in cultural comparison in Kenya |
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1991 |
Research project in political psychology in the newly independent Baltic States and the disintegrating Soviet Union |
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1990 |
Longitudinal study of the development of political cognition in the former GDR |
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1989 |
Research project on cultural integration in the Republic of South Africa |
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1986 - 1987 |
Research on the subjective representation of Europe in Eastern, Western
an non Europeans (conducted in Australia, Germany, Hungary, USA and
Yugoslavia) |
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International lecturing experience at other Univerities
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2011 |
Erasmus visiting professor at the Institute of Adult Education of the University of Klagenfurt |
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2010 |
Erasmus visiting professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Kaunas |
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2010 |
Erasmus visiting professor at the University of Arts of Neumarkt, Transylvania |
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2008 |
Erasmus visiting professor at the Department of Psychology of the Catholic University of Leuven |
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2001 - 2005 |
Contracted professor for Developmental Psychology and Research Methods at the University of Bolsano in Bressanone |
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2000 - 2001 |
Acting Chair of Educational Psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Hildesheim |
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1999 - 2000 |
Visiting professor for Media Education at the University of Innsbruck |
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1998 - 1999 |
Visiting lecturer for Educational Psychology at the University of Passau |
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1996 - 1997 |
Acting Chair in Psychology at the College of Education in Freiburg |
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1996 |
Position offered as Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Hertfordshire |
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1995 - 1996 |
Visiting lecturer for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Zurich |
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1995 |
Visiting lecturer for Developmental Psychology at the Institute of
Education of the University of Latvia, Riga |
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1989 - 1995 |
Visiting
professor at the University of Neumarkt,
Transylvania, (R)Lecturer and examiner for
Communication and Social Psychology at the Senior Civil Servants' College,
Faculty of Social Administration in Munich |
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Further qualifications and activities
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Language skills |
Besides my Hungarian mother tongue I have nearly native speaker skills in
English and German too, due to my growing up and schooling in English
speaking countries and my university education and work of more than three
decades in Germany. I acquired an advanced degree („Nivel
superior“) language exam in Spanish 1996, but would need some brushing up
prior to a serious application. |
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Professional membership |
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1998 |
Constructed Genopoly©, a game didactically designed to get acquainted with the evolutionary mechanisms of communication in relationships |
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since 1996 |
Several PR-events / interviews in press, radio and TV since the publication of my book "Traumpartner - Evolutionspsychologische Aspekte der Partnerwahl" [Your dream partner - Evolutionary psychological aspects of mate selection] through Springer on mate selection, initiation in traditional societies and the promotion of social competence in western society |
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1995 |
Research Co-ordinator of Mensa Intl. |
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1993 |
Open Water Diving Instructor certified by PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) |
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1986 |
Qualification in psychotherapy at the Institute of Integrated Therapies, Munich |