Curriculum vitae of Peter Wakker

Employment

1. 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.
2. July 2005 - January 2010:
   80% part-time: Full professor at Econometric Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
   Tasks: research and teaching in decision under uncertainty, supervision of Ph.D. students.
3. January 2001 - January 2010:
   20% part-time: Full professor at Dept. of Quantitative Economics, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
   Tasks: research and teaching in decision under uncertainty, supervision of Ph.D. students.
4. January 2001 - June 2005:
   80% part-time: Full professor at CREED, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
   Tasks: research and teaching in decision under uncertainty, supervision of Ph.D. students.
5. December 1995 - December 2000:
   40% part-time: Professor at Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
   Tasks: research and teaching in decision under uncertainty, supervision of Ph.D. students.
6. December 1995 - December 2000:
   60% part-time: Associate professor at Medical Decision Making Unit, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
   Tasks: research in decision under uncertainty, consulting for medical research, supervision of Ph.D. students, teaching in medical decision making.
7. Augustus 1992 - November 1995:
   Associate professor at Medical Decision Making Unit, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
   Tasks: research in decision under uncertainty, consulting for medical research, supervision of Ph.D. students, teaching in medical decision making.
8. September 1990 - July 1992:
   Fellowship of Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, at Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands.
   Task: research in decision under uncertainty, supervision of Ph.D. student. (Further teaching in statistics and mathematics.)
9. November 1989 - August 1990:
   Fellowship of Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham NC, with additional grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
   Task: research in decision under uncertainty.
10. July 1987 - October 1989:
    Fellowship of Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, at Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands.
    Task: research in decision under uncertainty. (Further teaching in Statistics and mathematics.)
11. September 1986 - June 1987:
    Research assistant at Dept. of Statistical Methods, Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics, Voorburg, The Netherlands.
    Task: research and consulting on anonymity protection in statistical data files.
12. August 1983 - August 1986:
    Research assistant at Dept. of Mathematics, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands.
    Task: teaching and research in decision under uncertainty.
13. April 1979 - March 1983:
    Ph.D. student/research assistant at Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
    Task: teaching and Ph.D. research in probability theory and statistics.
14. July 1977 - December 1977:
    Teaching assistant at Dept. of Mathematics, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands.
    Task: tutor in advanced analysis for mathematics students.

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

AWARDS AND RANKINGS

• Top 2% of World's most influential scientists (over all disciplines) in 2021, in Stanford University list by Ioannidis, Boyack, & Baas. 161^th most infuential economist, and 20155^th most influential researcher over all disciplines.
• No 445 in Research.com 2023 Ranking of Best Scientists in Economics and Finance (no 12 in Netherlands).
• 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
• 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
• 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).
  
  
• Ranking of Dutch economists by Hirsch's h-number:
  1^st in 2007 Economische Statistische Berichten, March 9, 2007;
  9^th in 2022.
  
  
• Ranking of Dutch economists by ordinal aggregation:
  1^st in 2007. Jan C. van Ours & Frederic Vermeulen (2007), “Ranking Dutch Economists”.
  
  
• Ranking of Dutch economists:
  12^th in 2014 De Economist 162.
  
  
• Ranking of Dutch economists:
  9^th in 2021 Economische Statistische Berichten 106, 23 Dec. 2021, 786-788.
  
  
• Alternative ranking of Dutch economics & Finance:
  8^th in 2022 Research.com.

FURTHER DATA

• 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.
• Fellow of the Econometric Society.
• Full member of the Operations Research Society.
• Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.