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Erik Hollnagel was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds an M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Copenhagen, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Aarhus (Denmark).
Erik Hollnagel is presently Senior Professor of Patient Safety at the University of Jönköping, Sweden. Erik is also Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University (Australia), Visiting Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University (Australia), Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technische Universitat München (Germany), and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University (LIU), Sweden. Prior to that he has held the following positions:
Erik Hollnagel is an internationally recognised specialist in the fields of resilience engineering, system safety, human reliability analysis, cognitive systems engineering, and intelligent man-machine systems. He is the author of more than 500 publications including twenty-two books, articles from recognised journals, conference papers, and reports.
Erik Hollnagel has also had a number of short term positions as follows:
Erik is founding Editor of the International Journal of Cognition, Technology & Work, where he also served as one of the two Editors-in-Chief for the first ten years of the journal. Erik is a member of the editorial boards of Safety Science, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, IEA Journal of Ergonomics Research, International Journal of Virtual Technology and Multimedia, the Advisory Board of Cognitive Science Quarterly, the International Consultant Board of 'Le Travail humain', and the Advisory Committee for the Journal of Korean Nuclear Society.
Erik Hollnagel has been member of the Scientific Committee of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, member of the Risk Commission of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (1986-1989), Representative (International Region) in the Council of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) (1994 - 1997), President of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (1994-2000), and member of the Swedish Reactor Safety Council (1996-2002). He is also co-founder and past President of the Resilience Engineering Association.
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