Professor Lamberts is Chair of UKCISA's Board of Trustees and Board Member of the Russell Group.
Before his appointment as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield in November 2018, Professor Koen Lamberts was Vice-Chancellor of the University of York. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of UKCISA and Board Member of the Russell Group. He is also a Board member of the N8 Research Partnership, the White Rose University Consortium, the Worldwide Universities Network, Universities UK and Yorkshire Universities.
Professor Lamberts was born in Hasselt, Belgium. He holds undergraduate degrees in Philosophy (1985) and Psychology (1987) and a PhD in Experimental Psychology (1992) from the University of Leuven. Following a research appointment at the University of Chicago, he became a lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 1992. He was Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Warwick from 2000 to 2013. At Warwick, he served as Faculty Chair for Science, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Science and Medicine) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost. Professor Lamberts has a track record of experimental research into cognitive processes in perception, memory and decision making, and of mathematical and computational modelling of these processes. He has collaborated with commercial and industrial partners in applied research that has focussed on consumer behaviour and product design.
He was a recipient of the British Psychological Society’s Cognitive Award (1996) and of the Experimental Psychology Society Prize (1997).