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CURRICULUM VITAE

ALEXANDER E. VOISKOUNSKY

Contact Information: Psychology Department, Moscow State Lomonosov University, 8/5 Mokhovaya str., Moscow 103009 Russia, Ph.: (095) 203-3409 (dept)
(095) 939-2319 (lab)
Fax: (095) 939-2319
E-mail: vae-msu@mail.ru or: vae-msu@inbox.ru

Professional Employment Experience:

2002 - Present Head of MINDLab Moscow, Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences; since October, 2003 - Moscow City University of Psychology and Education
1998 - Present Head of Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow University
1977 - 1998 Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow University
1972 - 1977 Research Fellow, Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences
1969 - 1972 Research Fellow, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow University

Academic Administration:
2000 - 2001 (April) Deputy Head, Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow University
1995 - 1999 Acting Head, Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow University
1992 - 1995 Deputy Head, Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow University

Research Grants and Awards:
2002
Honoured researcher, Moscow State University after M.V.Lomonosov
2000
Visiting Scholarship, Sawyer Seminar, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, The University of Chicago, USA. Grantee
1999
DAAD (German Foundation for Academic Exchanges). Visiting Researcher at the Friedrich Schiller. University (Jena, Germany). Grantee
2003-2005
Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Grant: "Human Beings on the Internet: Cognition, Communication, Gaming". Head of the Research Team
2000-2003
Research Foundation for the Humanities (Russia). Grant: Gender Aspects in the Internet Use. Head of the Research Team
2002
Russian Federal Program "Development of Tolerance and Prevention of Extremism in Russia". Project: "Internet: Aggression and Tolerance". Member of the Project Team
1999 - 2001
Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Grant: "Impact of Information Technologies on Personality". Head of the Research Team
1998 - 2000
Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation). Grant: "Internet in Eastern and Central Europe: Comparative Research of the Internet Users in Transient Post-Communist States". Head of the International Research Team
1997 - 1998
Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation). Grant: "A. Leontiev's Psychological School". Head of the Research Team (1998)& Participant (1997-1998)
1997 - 1999
Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Grant: "Human Activity on the Internet". Principal Investigator
1996
Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation). Grant: "Bibliographic Databases in Psychology". Grantee
1996 - 1998
Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Grant: "Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Children Using Computer Telecommunications". Head of the Project Team
1996 - 2000
Russian Foundation for Research in Humanities. Grant: "Development of Russian Bibliographic Database in Psychology". Head of the Project Team
1995
Rockefeller Foundation (USA). Collaborative (with Diane Halpern)compilation & editing of the book "States of Mind: American and Post-Soviet Perspectives on Contemporary Issues in Psychology"(Oxford University Press, 1997). Grantee
1995
R.Celli Award for Rockefeller Foundation Fellows
1994 - 1996
Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Grant: "Creativity and Information Technologies". Principal Investigator
1992 - 2003
Russian Institute for Public Networks & RELARN Association Research Project on the Monitoring of Russian Internet Users. Head of the Project Team

Numerous research projects carried out before 1992 were not regarded as grants/projects but as planned research work.

Professional Societies:

• Russian Psychological Society
• Moscow ACM SIGCHI (MOSCHI)
• International Communication Association
• International Association for Cross-Cultural Research

Board Member:

• Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (Quarterly Electronic Journal)
  http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/, http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/
• PsychNology (Quarterly Electronic Journal: ISSN 1720-7525)720-7525) (ISSN 0-7525)
  http://www.psychnology.org
• Member of the Program Committee, Third International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02) (12-15 July 2002), Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
  http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/
• Deputy Head of Chairman, All-Russian Conference on PSYCHOLOGY OF THINKING (May 24-26, 2003), Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
• Co-Chairman, PSYCHOLOGY & IT, 1st International Conference on Psychological Aspects of Information Technology, to be held September 7-9, 2004 at Cadiz, Spain.
• Member of the Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'04), to be held in Karlstad, Sweden, 27 June-1 July 2004:
  www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac04

Lecturing Courses:

• General Psychology (undergraduate)
• Psychology of Mediated Communication (graduate)
• Psychology of the Internet Use (graduate)
• Psychology & Information and Communication Technologies(graduate & postgraduate)
• Humanities & Social Sciences Research on the Internet (postgraduate)
• Information and Communication Technologies & New Trends in Research Methodology (postgraduate)

Visiting Lecturer:

• Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (1994)
• Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (1994)

Visiting Researcher:

• Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany (1999)

Actual Research Interests:

• Psychology of Mediated Communication
• Psychology of the Internet Use
• IT-Giftedness
• Internet/Computer Addiction & Overuse
• Gender Issues on the Internet Use
• Online Research Methods
• Cultural Attitudes Towards Technologies
• Human-Computer Interaction

Conferences/Sessions/Panels Organizer/Co-organizer:

• Session: "Information Technologies and New Trends in Human Development", XVth Meeting, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Berne, Switzerland, 1998. Co-organizer: Gerritt van der Veer (the Netherlands).
• Session: "The Multi-Ethnic Cyberworld", 2nd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, 1998. Co-organizer: Fay Sudweeks (Australia).
• Session: "Psychological Aspects of Human Activity in the Internet Environment", The 2nd Russian Conference on Environmental Psychology, Moscow, 2000.
• Panel: "The European Way to ICT and CMC Research: A Historical Perspective", The 50th International Communication Association Annual Conference, Acapulco, Mexico, 2000. Co-organizer: Thomas Koehler (Germany).
• Session: "Western/Eastern Patterns of the Internet Usage", 3rd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham, UK, 2000. Co-organizer: Thomas Koehler (Germany).
• Session: "Global Information Technologies: Social and Psychological Impact", 3rd International Conference "Building the Strategic Community through Education and Science", Moscow University, Moscow, Russia, 2001.
• WWW-conference: "Global Information Technologies: Social and Psychological Impact", Moscow, Russia, April-May, 2001. URL www.auditorium.ru/.
• Symposium: "Motivation in the Cyberspace", The 8th International Conference on Motivation (Workshop on Achievement and Task Motivation), Moscow, Russia, June 12-15, 2002.
• 1st All-Russian Conference: "Psychology of Thinking", Moscow, Russia, May 22-23, 2003, Deputy Head of the Conference Chair.
• Session: "Psychological Aspects of Human Activity in the Internet Environment", The 3rd Russian Conference on Environmental Psychology, Moscow, 2003.
• PSYCHOLOGY & IT 2004, 1st International conference on Psychological Aspects of Information Technology. To be held September 7-9, 2004, in Cadiz, Spain. Co-chairman. URL www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2004/psychology04

Conferences Participation (abbreviated list):

• 4th International Conference on AI, Tbilisi (Gruzia, now independent), 1974.
• All-Union symposia on psycholinguistics & communication theory: 5th (Leningrad, now St.-Petersburg,1975), 6th (Moscow, 1978), and 9th (Moscow, 1988).
• 9th All-Union Symposium on Cybernetics, Sukhumi (Gruzia, now independent), 1981
• International Conference "AI & Image Processing", Kiev (Ukraine, now independent), 1984
• All-Union conference "Psychology & Informatics", Moscow, 1985
• All-Union symposium on Social Psychology, Kostroma (Russia), 1986
• Symposia on Methods of Heuristics, Warsaw (Poland), 1989, and 1990
• All-Union Symposium "Human Beings in Dialogical World", Leningrad (now St.-Petersburg), 1990
• All-Union conference "IT & Mathematical Modeling in Education", Vologda (Russia), 1991
• Russian-German seminar "Speech & Community", Moscow, 1992
• 1st All-Russian Congress on Reading, Moscow, 1992
• East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, St.-Petersburg (Russia), 1992
• International Symposium "Cognitive Processes-93", Pereslavl-Zalesski (Russia), 1993
• International Conference on Information Technology & People, Moscow, 1993
• East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Moscow, 1993
• International Conference on Telecommunications and Education, Moscow, 1994
• 44th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Sydney, Australia, 1994
• East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Tsarskoe Selo (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), 1994
• The 4th Russian International Forum on Electronic Communication Technologies, Moscow, 1994
• International Conference "L.S.Vygotsky and Contemporary Human Sciences", Moscow, Russia, 1994
• International Conference "Human-Computer Interaction (Interact'95)", Lillehammer, Norway, 1995
• Annual Meeting, International Association for Computer Information Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1995
• European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995
• "Psychology Today", the 1st Meeting of the Russian Union of Psychologists, Moscow, 1996
• 6th East-West International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Moscow, Russia, 1996
• Fourth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom, 1996
• XXYI International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, Quebeck, Canada, 1996
• 42nd International Reading Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA, 1997
• Methods of Psychology, Annual Conference of the Russian Union of Psychologists, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 1997
• TeaDis: Teaching Design of Interactive Systems, Workshop, Schaerding, Austria, 1997
• RELARN (Russian Association for the advancement of computer networks in research and education) Annual Convention, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1997.
• Emotion, Creativity & Art, International Symposium, Perm, Russia, 1997
• Developing Psychology as the Basis of Humanization of Education, All-Russian Conference, Moscow, 1998
• (Mis)Communicating Across Boundaries. The 48th Annual Conference, International Communication Association, Jerusalem, Israel, 1998.
• XVth Meeting, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Berne, Switzerland, 1998
• RELARN (Russian Association for the advancement of computer networks in research and education) Annual Convention, Samara, Russia, 1998.
• Internet. Society. Personality. Conference held by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation). St.Peterburg, Russia, 1999.
• Lomonosovskie Chteniya. Annual Conference held by the Moscow University, 1999.
• RELARN (Russian Association for the advancement of computer networks in research and education) Annual Convention, Samara, Russia, 1999.
• IN-TELE: Internet-Based Teaching and Learning. International Conference. Jena, Germany, September 14-16, 1999.
• Internet and Modern Society: 2nd All-Russian Conference (St.Peterburg, Russia, 29 November-3 December 1999).
• German Online Research. Conference Held on October 28-29, 1999, Nuerenberg, Germany.
• Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization, Sawyer Seminar, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, USA (January 14-17, 2000).
• RELARN (Russian Association for the advancement of computer networks in research and education) Annual Convention, Samara, Russia, 2000.
• Internet. Society. Personality. Conference held by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation). St.Peterburg, Russia, 2000.
• Environmental Psychology, 2nd Russian Conference, Moscow, 2000.
• Crossroads in Cultural Studies, 3rd International Conference, Birmingham, UK, 2000.
• 50th Annual Conference, International Communication Association, Acapulco, Mexico, 2000.
• All-Russian Conference of the Russian Union of Psychologists, Kazan', Russia, 2000.
• Psychology of Giftedness, International Conference, Samara, Russia, 2000.
• Human Beings, Society, and Culture in the Context of Global Changes, All-Russian Conference, Moscow, 2000.
• Psychology of Communication, International Conference, Moscow, 2000.
• Internet Technologies Applications in Education and in Professional Activity, Seminar organized by the Project Harmony, Inc, St.Petersburg, 2000.
• Information Technologies and Security, Moscow, January, 2001
• New Information Technologies: Social and Psychological Impact, International WWW-conference, Moscow, 2001.
• Building the Strategic Community through Education and Science, 4th International Conference, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia, 2001.
• VIIth European Congress of Psychology, London, UK, 2001.
• 8th International Conference on Motivation (Workshop on Achievement and Task Motivation), Moscow, Russia, June 12-15, 2002.
• IT Technologies - Internet and Modern Society. 5th All-Russian Conference. Saint-Petersburg State University, November 25-29, 2002.
• 1st All-Russian Conference: "Psychology of Thinking", Moscow, Russia, May 22-23, 2003.
• International conference "Theory of activity: fundamental science and social practice", Moscow State University, May 28-30, 2003.
• 3rd All-Russian Conference on Environmental Psychology, Moscow, September 15-17, 2003.
• 6th All-Russian Conference "Information Society Technologies / Internet and Modern Society", St.Petersburg, November 3-6, 2003.

  Total: participation in over 85 conferences.

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