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Daniel R. Ilgen is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1969. After remaining there for one year on the faculty and two years in the Army where he was assigned to the faculty at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, he joined the faculty at Purdue University. He was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in 1972 and left in 1983 as professor and the area coordinator for industrial and organizational psychology. In 1983 he moved to Michigan State University in the position that he presently holds. He has also held positions as visiting professor at the University of Washington (1978-1979), the University of Western Australia (1991 & 2000), and the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales (2000). His work in the general area of work motivation and team decision making appears in over 100 publications as journal articles, books, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. His most recent edited books are The changing nature of work performance (1999) co-edited with Elaine D. Pulakos and Computational modeling in organizations: The third scientific discipline (2000), co-edited with Charles L. Hulin, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: volume 12 of the Handbook of Psychology (2003), co-edited with Walter Borman and Richard Klimoski, and Protecting participants and facilitating social and behavioral sciences research,(2003), published by the National Academy Press as the final report of a National Research Council (NRC) study panel co-edited by Constance Citro and Cora Merritt. He is past editor of the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and serves on its editorial board as well as the boards of four other journals. He has served on advisory committees or task forces for the NRC, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of the Navy and a number of review committees of academic units for universities and state boards of higher education. He is currently serving as a member of the Committee on Human Factors, a standing committee of the NRC, an affiliate staff scientist for the Pacific Norwest National Laboratory of the Department of Energy, and the scientific review panel of the Military Family Research Institute. For his profession, he was an elected member of the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives, and president of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). Currently he is a member of an ad hoc advisory committee to the Board of Scientific Affairs of APA for issues related to ethics in research. He is an elected fellow of the APA and a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society, a fellow of the Academy of Management, the 2001 recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award given by SIOP, and the 2002 recipient of the Herbert A Henneman, Jr. Career Achievement Award given by the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management
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