14 Facts About Daniel Gopher

Daniel Gopher is a professor of Cognitive psychology and Human Factors Engineering at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Daniel Gopher held the Yigal Alon Chair for the Study of Humans at Work at the Technion.

From 1973 to 1975 Daniel Gopher had a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Daniel Gopher was a senior scientist and acting head of the Research Unit in the Personnel Division, and senior scientist and head of Human Factors of the Air Force.

Daniel Gopher joined the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion in 1979 as a Senior Lecturer.

Daniel Gopher was promoted to Associate Professor in 1981 and to a full Professor in 1989.

Daniel Gopher held the Yigal Alon Chair for the Study of Human at Work in Technion from 1998 until his retirement as an Emeritus Professor in 2011.

Daniel Gopher has held several official positions at the Technion, including Director of the Technion Research Center for Work Safety and Human Engineering, Director of Max Wertheimer Minerva center for cognitive processes and human performance, Coordinator of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, member of the Technion Senate Steering Committee and Technion Graduate Studies Committee.

Daniel Gopher conducted multiple studies and application projects on topics of safety at the work and patient safety in medical systems.

Daniel Gopher was founder and president of the Israel Ergonomics Association, Member of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Safety and Health, Chair of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance, Member of the Minerva Centers General Committee, Berlin Germany, Member of the Expert Advisory Committee for Life and Physical Science in Space of the European Space Agency and the European Science Foundation.

Daniel Gopher was an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, and a Member of the Editorial Board at several professional journals: Acta Psychologica, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, International Journal of Human Computer Interaction, Psychology - Israel Journal of Psychology, Human Factors, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Together with A Koriat Gopher received the 1995 German Minerva Foundation endowment grant of 3 million dollars for establishing a joint Technion - Haifa University Research Center for the Study of Cognitive Processes and Human Performance.

Daniel Gopher was elected as Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 1996, Fellow of the Psychonomics Society in 1998 and Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association in 2000.

Daniel Gopher was the recipient of the Hal Henrick Distinguished International Colleague Award 2013, for "outstanding contributions to the Human Factors and Ergonomics field" by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, USA.