Hubert Hermans- Creator of the Dialogical Self Theory

• Click here for the three different phases in Hubert's 40 year-professional career. 
• Affiliation: Emeritus-professor of psychology at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Born: Maastricht, the Netherlands, as the oldest son of a local baker who made excellent pies
• Marriages: In 1961 he married Els Hermans-Jansen with whom he cooperated in the development of the Self-Confrontation Method. From 2008-2013 he was married to Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka with whom he is cooperating on the further development of Dialogical Self Theory. Hubert has two children and two grand-children.
• Education:
  -  Gymnasium alpha (high school) in Maastricht
  -  Psychology at the University of Nijmegen
  -  Doctoral degree at the University of Nijmegen
• Professional Career:
  -  Staff member at the Psychological Laboratory at the University of Nijmegen (1965)
  -  Associate Professor at the University of Nijmegen (1972)
  -  Full Professor at the University of Nijmegen (1980-2002)

Career Related Activities:
-  Guest Professor at the University of Louvain (1975)
-  Guest Professor at Duquesne University at Pittsburgh (1979)
-  Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Han Fortmann Centre in Nijmegen (1980-2002)
-  Chairman of the Valuation Theory and Self-Confrontation Foundation (1992-2009) 
-  Teacher in the Self-Confrontation Method training program (2009- )
-  Chairman of the First (Nijmegen 2000), Second (Ghent 2002), Third (Warsaw 2004), Fourth (Braga, Portugal, 2006), Fifth (Cambridge, UK, 2008), and Sixth, (Athens, Greece, 2010), and Seventh International Conference on the Dialogical Self (Georgia, USA). The 8th International Conference on the Dialogical Self is scheduled 19-22 August 2014 at The Hague University in The Hague. 
-  President of the International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS) (2002-)
-  Chief Editor of the International Journal for Dialogical Science (IJDS) (2005-)

Honors and Awards:

- Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1976-)

- First International Associate of the Society for Personology (USA) (1992-)

- Address to the Queen of the Netherlands and Representatives of science, art and politics (1993)

- Quality of research rated as "excellent" by two subsequent international committees for the evaluation of research programs of Dutch universities (1994 and 1999)

- Knight in the Society of the Netherlands Lion (Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw): decoration received in the name of the Queen of the Netherlands for exceptional personal scientific achievements in the service of society (2002)

- Honorary member of the Dutch Assocation of SCM Practitioners (2007)

- His book Dialoog en Misverstand (2006) was used by Herman Wijffels during the preparation of the Dutch government (Balkenende 4, 2007)

- Honorary Associate of the Taos Institute (2012)