With Dr. Dora Matzke he leads Psychological Methods, one of the 6 units of the Department of Psychology. He teaches in the bachelor program, in the research master, and in our one year Behavioral data science program.
Han van der Maas (1966) studied Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and received his master (Psychological Methods) in 1989 and his Ph.D (Developmental Psychology) in 1993 for research on methods for the analysis of phase transitions in cognitive development (advisor: Peter Molenaar). After a five year KNAW fellowship, he joined the faculty of the developmental group of the University of Amsterdam, first as associate professor and in 2003 as full professor. In 2005 he became professor and chair of Psychological Methods group at the University of Amsterdam. He served as Graduate school director and Director of Research between 2007 and 2019. In 2009 he founded Oefenweb.nl, a spin-off company of the UvA-holding, selling an unique game-based web-based adaptive child monitoring system. Oefenweb is now part of Prowise.com.
His general research theme is the formalization and testing of psychological theories in areas such as cognition, expertise, development, attitudes and intelligence. In 2022 he received an ERC grant to study cascading transitions in psycho-social systems.
I’m happy to announce my open access book “Complex-systems Research in Psychology”, published by SFI Press.
The book has three primary objectives: to provide a comprehensive overview of complex-systems research, with a particular emphasis on its applications in psychology and the social sciences; to provide skills for complex-systems research; and to foster critical thinking regarding the potential applications of complex systems in psychology.
Complex-Systems Research in Psychology by Han L. J. van der Maas