Research Interests
- Psycholinguistics – Bilingualism
- Language Development & Working Memory
- Education
- Orientation and Selection Tests for Tertiary Education
- Experimental Software & Equipment
- Computational Modeling
- Dyslexia
- Aphasia
- Idea Generation & Selection
- Eyetracking in Applied Research (Job Interviews)
Contact
- wouter dot duyck at ugent dot be
- Twitter: @wduyck https://twitter.com/wduyck
Academic publications
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ne2lJO0AAAAJ&hl=nl
Education
- PhD, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
- Master in Psychology, option Theoretical and Experimental Psychology , Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium (magna cum laude)
- 1989-1995: Latijn-Wiskunde, Klein Seminarie Roeselare
Current Position
- 2020 – current: Vice-President NVAO (Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie, Den Haag, www.nvao.net) – appointed by the Flemish Government
- 2020 – current: Ghent University, Full Professor (Hoogleraar)
Previous Positions
- 2013 – 2020. Associate Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University
- 2008 – 2013. Assistant Professor Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
- Visiting Researcher Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Fellowships
- 2000 – 2004. PhD Candidate (Aspirant) Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO)
- 2004 – 2008. Post-doctoral research fellow Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO)
Institutional Responsabilities
- 2009 – 2020. President Ba/Ma Psychology Program Ghent University (Voorzitter opleidingscommissie psychologie)
- 2008 – 2020. Member of the Faculty Council at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University
- 2009 – now. Founder, faculty representative and treasurer of the board of the Gentse Alumni Psychologie (GAP vzw)
Commissions of Trust
- 2019 – present: Expert Member ‘Commissie Beter Onderwijs’ (appointed by the Flemish Minister for Education)
- 2015 – present. Expert Member scientific committee development study orientation tool for higher education (Columbus) (duty assigned by the Flemish Government)
- 2018 – present. Expert Member scientific committee entrance exams Medical Doctors and Dentists (duty assigned by the Flemish Government)
- Reviewer of almost all renowned scientific journals in the domain of cognitive psychology (not limited to, but including Psychological Science, Cortex, Neuropsychologia, Cognition, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Journal of Experimental Psychology (all subjournals), Journal of Memory and Language, etc.)
Memberships of Scientific Societies
- 2008 – now. Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
- 2008 – now. Fellow of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP)
- 2012 – 2016. Fellow of the Academy of Aphasia
Awards
- I received the Prix de Psychologie (Quinzième période triennale) for the best doctoral dissertation in Psychological sciences between 2004 and 2006, awarded by the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique, to: Duyck, W. (2004). Lexical and semantic organization in bilinguals.
- I was one of the co-founders of the science blog http://www.mensenkennis.be, by the Ghent Alumni Psychology association. It received a science communication award (‘Jaarprijs Wetenschapscommunicatie’) by the Flemish Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2014. The blog attracts 30.000 new readers per year.
- 2014 Science prize from the German Association for Dyslexia and Dyscalculia for the study: Hachmann, W., Bogaerts, L., Szmalec, A., Woumans, E., Duyck, W., & Job, R. (2014). Short-term memory for order but not for item infomation is impaired in developmental dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 64, 121-136.
- Best Masters Thesis Award 2001, awarded by the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) to: Duyck, W. (2000). Semantische mediatie bij vertaling door tweetaligen: een studie aan de hand van het grootte-effect bij getalsbenoeming.
- Best Poster Prize 2006, awarded by the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) to: Depestel, I., & Duyck,, W. (2006). Does backward number translation require conceptual mediation? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, May 19th, Liège, Belgium.
- Best Poster Prize Belgian Earth Observation Day 2009 to: Gardin, S., Van Coillie, F., De Wulf, R., Anseel, F., & Duyck, W. (2009). Web-based assessment of operator performance and variability in remote sensing image analysis. Poster presented at the Belgian Earth Observation Day, April 28th, Maaseik, Belgium.
