Prof. Anne C. Petersen
University of Michigan, USA
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan.
Jury
The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, worth one million Swiss francs, honors scientific work with a high degree of social relevance for the personality development of children and young people. A further requirement is that scientific findings from interdisciplinary research should be put into practice. The Jacobs Foundation is aware that having such high requirements for the prize-winner also places high demands on the panel that has to choose him or her. For this reason, we have appointed a jury that is comprised exclusively of internationally recognized scientists. This expert jury each year elects the winner of the Research Prize after a multi-stage selection process.
Jury members
Prof. Albert Bandura
Stanford University, USA
At Stanford University since the 1950s, one of the leading psychologists of our time, developed social cognitive theory.
Prof. Monique Boekaerts
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Center for the Study of Education and Instruction at the University of Leiden, President of the International Academy of Education.
Prof. W. Thomas Boyce
University of British Columbia, Canada
Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia, Sunny Hill Health Centre/BC Leadership Chair in Child Development.
Prof. Kathleen Kiernan
University of York, UK
Professor of Social Policy and Demography and Chair of the Departmental Research Committee at the University of York.
Prof. Meinrad Paul Perrez
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Clinical psychology at the University of Fribourg.
Prof. Rainer K. Silbereisen
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Chair of the Department of Developmental Psychology and Director of the Center for Applied Developmental Science at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, President of the International Union of Psychological Science.
