Carsten De Dreu

Biography

Carsten De Dreu obtained his PhD (1993; cum laude) from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. As post-doctoral fellow supported by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1994 – 1999), he worked at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Yale University, and Carnegie Mellon University. From 1998 – 2015, De Dreu was full professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Carsten De Dreu is fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science. In 2012 he was elected into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is a former president of the International Association for Conflict Management (2001), and the European Association for Social Psychology (2008-2011). His scientific research and teaching focuses on the neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of creativity and innovation, cooperative decision-making, and the regulation of conflict within and between groups. For his work he received several awards, including most influential article awards from the Academy of Management (2009, 2010), the William Owens Scholarly Achievement Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2014), the Kurt Lewin Medal from the European Association of Social Psychology (2014), and the KNAW-Hendrik Muller Award (2015).

Research Interest

His scientific research and teaching focuses on the neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of creativity and innovation, cooperative decision-making, and the regulation of conflict within and between groups. For his work he received several awards, including most influential article awards from the Academy of Management (2009, 2010), the William Owens Scholarly Achievement Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2014), the Kurt Lewin Medal from the European Association of Social Psychology (2014), and the KNAW-Hendrik Muller Award (2015).