Peter Suedfeld was born on August 30,1935 and is a Hungarian-Canadian professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia.
15 Facts About Peter Suedfeld
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Peter Suedfeld urged space agencies to consider new methods for enhancing astronauts' psychological well-being, rather than focusing on treating adverse effects.
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Peter Suedfeld was born in Budapest, Hungary to Jewish parents who died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
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The young Peter Suedfeld escaped with the help of the International Red Cross and immigrated to the United States after World War II.
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Peter Suedfeld taught at the University of Illinois and Rutgers University prior to joining the University of British Columbia in 1972 as head of the Department of Psychology.
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Peter Suedfeld later became Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and now holds emeritus status.
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Peter Suedfeld is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.
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Peter Suedfeld is a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, a Fellow International of the Explorers Club, and the only psychologist elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
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Peter Suedfeld has received the Canadian Psychological Society's Donald O Hebb Award, its highest award for distinguished scientific contributions, as well as the Society's gold medal for distinguished and enduring lifetime contributions to Canadian psychology and its Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.
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Peter Suedfeld has chaired the Canadian Antarctic Research Program and the Life Sciences Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency.
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Peter Suedfeld continues his research and organizational activities at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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In 2019 Peter Suedfeld was admitted to the Order of Canada.
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Peter Suedfeld's research, published in seven books and over 300 book chapters and journal articles, has focused on the strengths of people as they cope during and after experiencing extreme, unusual, challenging, and traumatic events and environments.
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Peter Suedfeld's methodology has included laboratory experiments in profound stimulus reduction, fieldwork in the Antarctic and the High Arctic, and interview and questionnaire studies with Holocaust survivors, prisoners in solitary confinement, and astronauts.
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Peter Suedfeld has engaged in a series of studies on survivors of genocide and persecution.