Curriculum vitae of Peter Wakker
Employment
- January 2010 - present:
Full professor at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands.
Tasks: research and teaching in decision under
uncertainty, supervision of Ph.D. students.
- Preceding employments
Education
- Ph.D. degree: June 1986, CentER, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands, in economics (with honors); supervisors: Pieter
Ruys, Stef Tijs, & David Schmeidler.
- Teacher's qualification obtained in April 1983 (i.e., I am qualified to teach at high schools).
- Masters degree: Mathematics at Nijmegen University,
The Netherlands; Sept.
1972-March 1979 (with honors). Specializations:
probability theory, statistics,
and optimization theory.
Student-assistant (tutor) from September 1977 to January
1978.
Personalia
Born in Herwen en Aerdt (The Netherlands) on March 16, 1956, unmarried,
male, Dutch nationality.
Awards and Rankings
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Top 2% of World's most influential scientists (over all disciplines) in 2021, in Stanford University list by Ioannidis, Boyack, & Baas. 161th most infuential economist, and 20155th most influential researcher over all disciplines.
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No 445 in Research.com 2023 Ranking of Best Scientists in Economics and Finance (no 12 in Netherlands).
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Köbberling & Wakker (2005 JET) is among the
50 most influential papers published in Journal of Economic Theory, selected by
Shell, Borgers, & Pavan (2020).
- INFORMS Society Decision Analysis Publication Award 2016
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Honorary doctorate in economics of the University of St. Gallen 2016 for achievements in behavioral economics.
- 2013 Frank P. Ramsey Medal: Highest
award of INFORMS Decision Analysis Society.
- Medical Decision Making Career Achievement Award 2007
- Dutch
Medical Technology-Assessment publication
award 2005
- INFORMS Society Decision Analysis Publication
Award 2003
- INFORMS Society Decision Analysis Publication
Award 2002
- Dutch
Medical Technology-Assessment publication
award 2001
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New Investigator Award of Society for Mathematical Psychology, 1991. See table “Past William K. Estes Early Career Award winners”
- Mathematics:
Erdös number is 2 (512 people have a better rank, being 1 or 0).
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Fellow of SAET society
- Fellow of the Econometric Society.
- Full member of the Operations Research Society.
- Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Ranking of Dutch economists by Hirsch's h-number:
1st in 2007
Economische Statistische Berichten, March 9, 2007;
9th in 2022.
- Ranking of Dutch economists by ordinal aggregation:
1st in 2007.
Jan C. van Ours & Frederic Vermeulen (2007), “Ranking Dutch Economists”.
- Ranking of Dutch economists:
12th in 2014
De Economist 162.
- Ranking of Dutch economists:
9th in 2021
Economische Statistische Berichten 106, 23 Dec. 2021, 786-788.
- Alternative ranking of Dutch economics & Finance:
8th in 2022
Research.com.
Further Data
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Ph.D. students;
- Languages: fluent in Dutch (native), English, German, French.
- In board of journals: Decision Analysis, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Theory and Decision.
Last updated: 23 Feb., 2025