Prof Peter van den Besselaar
Professor, Department of Organization Sciences and the Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Cognitive network and gender bias in early career grant decisioin-making
Parallel 4: Sources and effects of gender bias in career development
Prof van den Besselaar’s research focuses on the organization, governance and dynamics of science. Apart from that he is strongly interested in the use of computational methods and big data in social research. He also still does some research in the field of social informatics. Between 1982 and 2002, he was at the University of Amsterdam, the department of social informatics, first as assistant professor and then as associate professor. In 2002, he moved to the Royal Netherland Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he was director of the social science data archive (Steinmetz Archive) until 2005, and research director and head of the department of Science System Assessment until 2010.
He combined these positions with an endowed communication science chair at the University of Amsterdam (2004-2009), and endowed science policy research chair at the VU University (2009-2014). He studied mechanical engineering (propedeuse, TU Eindhoven), mathematics (BSc, University Utrecht) and philosophy (MA with honors, University of Amsterdam) and has a PhD in informatics (Faculty of Psychology, University of Amsterdam). He is working on the gendERC – Gendered dimensions in ERC grant selection project.