Andrea Bender#
| Membership Number: | 5822 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Andrea.Bender |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9542-2975 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Full Professor in General Psychology, Department of Psychosocial Science, U Bergen, NO
- 2017 - present PI in the CoE Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), U Bergen, NO
- 2013 - 2017 Associate Professor, General Psychology, Department of Psychosocial Science, U Bergen, NO
- 2011 - 2012 Chair of the international Research Group "The cultural constitution of causal cognition: Reintegrating anthropology into the cognitive sciences", Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, ZiF, Bielefeld, DE
- 2009 - 2013 Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
- 2003 - 2009 Postdoc position (fellowship), Department of Psychology, U Freiburg, DE
Fields of Scholarship
- Grammatical gender
- Causal cognition
- Linguistic relativity
- Cultural evolution
- Spatial and temporal referencing
- Numerical cognition
- Cognitive anthropology
- Culture, language, & cognition
- Cognitive diversity
Honours and Awards
- 2020 ERC Synergy Grant
- 2018 Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, CSS
- 2010 Excellency Database AcademiaNet of the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
- 2009 Heisenberg Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
- 2003 Postdoc Fellowship, Margarete-von-Wrangell, State Baden-Württemberg
