Ingvar Lundberg - Curriculum vitae#

Born in Stockholm September 30, 1934
Married, three children, six grandchildren

Education

• Elementary school teacher exam (Grade 3-8) 1956
• Fil kand (BA) University of Stockholm 1960
• Fil lic (roughly equivalent to PhD) in Stockholm 1964
• Fil Dr Umeå university 1971

• School teacher in Stockholm 1956-1960
• Assistant teacher and research assistant at the Psychology Department, Stockholm University 1960-1954
• University lecturer Stockholm University 1964-1967
• Senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Umeå University 1967-1984
• Director of undergraduate studies 1967-1980
• Professor in the psychology of reading 1985-1989, Umeå University
• Professor in developmental psychology 1989- 1995 Umeå University
• Vice dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences 1990-1994
• Chairman of the University Library 1991-1993
• Research professor at the Psychology Department, Göteborg University 1995 -
• Docent at the Faculty of Education Åbo Akademi, Finland 1986-1994
• Professor 2 in Educational Psychology, Bergen University, Norway, 1988-1994

• Doctor honoris causa at the educational faculty of Åbo Akademi, Finland 1999
• The Marion Welshman Award for Life Time Achievement 2003
• A symposium to honour Ingvar Lundberg at the Karolinska Institute, 2001
• An edited volume: A tribute to Ingvar Lundberg (Dyslexia & Literacy)
• The World-didac Award (Silver) for the new reading course “Läs med oss”.
• The Tim Miles Honorary lecture at the University of Wales, Bangor, 1999
• The Norman Geschwind Memorial lecture at the International Dyslexia Society, 2002
• The Curt von Euler Memorial lecture at the Rodin Academy in Stockholm 2005
• A large number of invited addresses and key note speeches in various parts of the world
• The royal gold medal in the ribbon of the Serafiminian order received by his Majesty the King in 2009.

• Assistant editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 1960-1968
• Editorial board of Reading Research Quarterly 1989-1994: 2006 -
• Reading and Writing 1989 –
• Dyslexia 1991 –
• Human Development 1992-1998
• Annals of Dyslexia 2000-
• Scientific Studies of Reading 2001-
• International Journal of Applied Linguistics
• Scandinavian Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics

• Vice chair of the organization committee for organizing the World Congress of Psychology in Stockholm in 2000
• Organizer of four Nordic congresses on dyslexia in Stockholm
• Organizer of a large number of national and international symposia and conferences
• On the board of the Institute of Advanced Training of Psychologists owned by the Swedish Psychological Association
• On the Board of the Swedish National Council of Research in Social Sciences
• Chair of the priority committee concerning caring sciences and development
• Chair of the Board for the University Library Umeå University
• Vice dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Umeå University
• Vice chairman of the National Committee on Psychology (the Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• 1st Faculty opponent on a large number of doctoral dissertations in the Scandinavian countries
• Reviewer of a large number of academic positions in the Scandinavian countries
• Reviewer of the re-organization of the school system in the Netherlands 1992
• On the Steering Committee of the International Reading Literacy Study 1986-1992
• Research co-ordinator of the reading part of the National Assessments 1988-1992
• Scientific consultant for The Center for Reading Research, Stavanger Norway
• Scientific consultant for the Dyslexia Research Foundation, Stavanger Norway
• Expert appointed by the Swedish government to serve at the committee for a new teacher education in Sweden
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Learning Research at the University of Turku, Finland

• Fellow of Academia Europaea
• Fellow of the Rodin Remediation Academy
  • Chair of the Prize Committee
  • Member of the Executive Board
• Fellow of the International Academy for Research on Learning Disabilities
• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts, England
• Founding member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
• Member of the International Dyslexia Association
• Board member of the Swedish Foundation for Dyslexia Research
• Chair of the Prize Committee for the Marianne Bernadotte Foundation
• Honorary Protector of the Association of Dyslexia teachers at the high-school level