Reinhard Selten - Curriculum vitae#

Reinhard Selten was born in Breslau (then Germany, now Poland), on October 5, 1930

• 1957 Master´s Thesis in Mathematics at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 1957-67 Research assistant to Professor Heinz Sauermann at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 1961 Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematics at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frank-furt/Main, Germany
• 1967-68 Visiting Full Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Cali-fornia at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
• 1968 Habilitation Thesis in Economics at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 1969-72 Full Professor at the Department of Economics of the Free University of Berlin, Germany
• 1972-84 Full Professor at the Institute for Mathematical Economics of the University of Bielefeld, Germany
• 1984 Full Professor at Department of Economics of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Germany
• 1989 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Economics from the University of Bielefeld, Germany
• 1991 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Economics from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with John C. Harsanyi and John F. Nash
• 1996 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Economics from the University of Graz, Austria
• 1996 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Economics from the University of Breslau, Poland
• 1996 Honorary Professor of the Jiaotong University of Shanghai, Peoples' Republic of China
• 1997 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Economics in Norwich
• 1998 Honorary Doctoral Degree from the ENS de Cachan
• 2000 Honorary Doctoral Degree from the University of Innsbruck
• 2000 Prize of the State North-Rhine Westfalia
• 2003 Honorary Doctoral Degree from the Chinese Universiy of Hong Kong, Peoples' Re-public of China
• 2006 Order Pour le Mérite for Arts and Sciences
• 2006 Honorary Doctoral Degree from the University of Osnabrück
• 2007 Honorary Senator of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn
• 2008 Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bialystok (Polen)
• 2009 Honorary Doctoral Degree of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

Reinhard Selten is Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the European Economic Association, he was President of the European Economic Association, Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Arts and Sciences. He is also Honora Patrona Komitato at Universala Esperanto Asocio. His main areas of interest are Game Theory and its applications as well as Experimental Economics and the Theory of Bounded Rationality.


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