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Gert Jan Hofstede

Professor at the Information Technology Group at Wageningen University & Research

Areas of expertise

  • - Computational Social Simulation
  • - Complex Systems
  • - Agent-Based Modelling
  • - Cultural psychology
  • - Socio-Technical Systems
  • - Evolution
  • - Emotions
  • - Artificial intelligence
  • - Modeling
  • - Organization
  • - Systems analysis
  • - Gaming simulation
  • - Information systems
  • - Intercultural communication
  • - Research by design
  • - Database design
  • - Complex systems
  • - Agent based modelling

Major works

Courses and Programs taught by prof.dr.ir. GJ (Gert Jan) Hofstede

Publications by prof.dr.ir. GJ (Gert Jan) Hofstede

To Stay or Not to Stay? Artificial Sociality in GRASP World. Gert Jan Hofstede , Chutao Liu (2020). Springer: Advances in Social Simulation, 217-231

GRASP agents: social first, intelligent later. Gert Jan Hofstede (2019). AI & Society

The statuspower arena: a comprehensive agent-based model of social status dynamics and gender in groups of children. Gert Jan Hofstede , Jillian Student, Mark Kamer (2018). AI & Society

Culture's Causes: the next challenge. Gert Jan Hofstede (2015). Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, Vol. 22 Issue: 4, pp.545-569

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About me

Dr Gert Jan Hofstede is Associate Professor at the Information Technology Group at Wageningen University & Research. As population biologist and social scientist in information management and social simulation, Dr Hofstede is interested in the interplay of the contrasting forces of cultural evolution, societal change and cultural stability.

Gert Jan Hofstede was born in the Netherlands in 1956. He graduated as a population biologist, with a PhD in production planning, a career in Information Systems and a track record as a speaker on culture.

Gert Jan's long-standing aim is teasing out the generic dynamics of human social behaviour. His stance is that people are not unpredictable, but ill-understood. Knowledge is patchy, obscuring the big picture. He uses simulation gaming and social simulation as preferred methods that integrate knowledge from many fields to yield operable knowledge that can be applied in all kinds of practical contexts. In 2015 he co-organized the Summer School of ESSA, European Social Simulation Association, see video report. In 2016 he founded SiLiCo together with co-researcers in Complex Adaptive Systems. He is a personal professor, that is, a full professor based on his work's merit, in Artificial Sociality. See his inaugural lecture here.