Mark van Vugt

Who is Mark van Vugt?

Mark van Vugt is a Netherlands evolutionary psychologist who holds a professorship in group and organizational psychology at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Van Vugt has affiliate positions at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Kent, UK. Mark van Vugt studied psychology at the University of Groningen, followed by a PhD in applied social psychology at the University of Maastricht during which he worked on research into environmental sustainability and transportation as social dilemma and tragedy of the commons problems.

After receiving his PhD in 1996, Mark van Vugt was hired by the University of Southampton, UK, to work as a lecturer in psychology, followed by a professorship in 2004 at the University of Kent, UK. Mark currently holds a professorship in psychology at the VU University Amsterdam, bringing evolutionary and Darwinian thinking into the field of social psychology and organisational psychology.