Clarkson University President Tony Collins has announced that Andreas Wilke has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences. Promotion to professor is considered to be virtually the highest honor that a university can bestow upon its faculty.
In 2018 he was named chair of the Psychology Department. Wilke joined Clarkson in 2009. He received his Diploma and Ph.D. in psychology from the Free University of Berlin in Germany.
Before coming to Clarkson, Wilke worked as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
His postdoctoral training included posts at the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles; and at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria.
He also served as both a research scientist and instructor at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Wilke’s research interests include cognitive processing, foraging behavior, judgment and decision-making, how people behave under risk and uncertainty, and evolutionary approaches to human cognition and behavior. His research has been funded by research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Center for Responsible Gaming, the Walker Fellowship Program of Northern New York, and the International Society for Human Ethology.
He is a past recipient of research scholarships from the German Science Foundation (DFG), the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Max Planck Society (MPG). His research is regularly featured in national and international media outlets including the New York Times, Economist, Wired and the BBC.
Wilke is the coauthor of 45 published articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, many of them conducted and published in collaboration with his undergraduate research lab students. To date, Wilke’s research team has presented more than 150 papers and posters at scientific conferences and he has given two dozen invited lectures in eight different countries.
He is a member of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the Society for Judgment and Decision-Making and the International Society for Human Ethology. In 2014, he was named Fellow of the Psychonomic Society—the preeminent international community for the experimental study of cognition.
Wilke regularly reviews grant and book proposals and has been an ad hoc reviewer for more than 70 journals, publishers, and granting agencies. He is an associate editor for the journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, which is published by the American Psychological Association.
Wilke is a member of Phalanx, Clarkson’s highest honorary society.
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