Professor Johan Bolhuis

Johan Bolhuis is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He received his MSc in Biology (cum laude) at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (1984). He obtained his PhD in Zoology (cum laude) at Groningen (1989), and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. He was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands, before being appointed to his current role by Utrecht University in 2001. He was a Visiting Scholar at Sidney Sussex College (2014–15) and at St Catharine’s College (2016–21). Since 2019 he has been an Affiliated Lecturer and since 2025 an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Professor Bolhuis has served as President of the Royal Dutch Zoological Society (2001–07). He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Behavioural Processes, and editor of seven books, including Brain, Perception, Memory(OUP, 2000), and, together with linguist Martin Everaert, Birdsong, Speech, and Language (MIT Press, 2013). He is co-editor of the academic textbook The Behavior of Animals (2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).