Gerd Gigerenzer
Director Emeritus
Awards
Public Lectures and Academic Talks
Books
Key References
The Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) Research Group was established at the MPI for Psychological Research in Munich in 1995, moved to the MPI for Human Development in Berlin in 1997, and ended its local activities in 2017. Gerd Gigerenzer has continued as Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, which was first located at the MPI for Human Development and moved to the University of Potsdam in 2020. In 2023–2025, Gerd Gigerenzer also served as Member of the Scientific Council and Vice President of the European Research Council.
Awards
In 2024, the British Academy elected Gerd Gigerenzer as an International Fellow and he was also elected as Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate from University of Southampton, UK, in 2024, and received an offer as part-time research professor at its Business School (which he declined). The Psychology Department of Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India, named its lab the "Gerd Gigerenzer Laboratory of Psychology," which was inaugurated in 2024.
In 2023, Harvard Medical School, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, presented him with the Harry H. Strasburger MD Award. He also received the getAbstract International Book Award 2023 "Business Impact."
Public Lectures and Academic Talks
In the reporting period, Gerd Gigerenzer held approximately 120 invited lectures, including:
2025 Public lecture, Anton Zeilinger’s 80th Birthday, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
2024 Opening lecture, Royal Air Force Leadership Conference, Cranwell, UK
2023 John Adair Lecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2023 Max von Laue Lecture, German Physical Society, Dresden
Books
Smart Management. Image: Campus Verlag, cover design: Guido Klütsch, Köln, cover image: © MIT Press.
Herbert Simon. Image: Edward Elgar (Publisher), Bill Redic (Photographer). Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear.
The Intelligence of Intuition. Image: Cambridge University Press. Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear.
Between 2023 and 2025, Gerd Gigerenzer's book How to Stay Smart in a Smart World (Penguin, 2022) was translated into Chinese, Finish, Italian, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Vietnamese.