Personal page of Otto Adang, behavioural scientist

2018 - present Visiting Professor at the Canterbury Center of Policing research

2016 - present Professor of Security and collective behaviour, University of Groningen

2015 - present Academic Dean, MSc policing, Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn

2004 - present Chair in Public order Management, Police Academy of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn

2006 - 2008 Visiting Professor, Swedish National Police Academy, Solna, Sweden

2005 - 2006 Visiting fellow, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

2004 - 2009 Visiting Professor, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK

1998 - 2004 Research Manager LSOP Police Education and Knowledge Centre, Apeldoorn

heading research programme "Managing Dangerous Conflict Situations"

teaching national and international (CEPOL and AEPC) courses in public order management

consultant expert to police forces in Netherlands, Belgium, Northern Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, and to Interior Ministry in the Netherlands, the Council of Europe and the EU.

member of the editorial board of "Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society"

organiser of the First European Conference on Hostage Negotiations, November 1998

1991 - 1998 Senior researcher/ consultant Police Institute Public order and Safety, Hoogerheide

coordinating research on police use of force, public order policing, bomb threat analysis, etc.

teaching courses in public order management

organiser of the conferences "Quality in Safety", March 1998 and "Public order and responsibility", November 1993

1990 - 1991 Researcher Police Study Centre, Warnsveld

research on the role of mayors after the police transformation

1985 - 1991 Information science and biology teacher in Apeldoorn, Silvolde and Deventer

1986 - 1990 Researcher (post-doc) Utrecht University

observational research on the initiation and escalation of violence during riot-situations

1981 - 1985 Researcher Utrecht University and Arnhem Zoo

coordination of behavioural research in the Arnhem Zoo chimpanzee colony

adviser to film-maker Bert Haanstra (The Family of Chimps, 1984)

PhD thesis on the development of quasi-aggressive behaviour in chimpanzees (January 1986)

1974 - 1981 Biology study, Utrecht University

Prof. Dr. Otto M.J. Adang

Chair, Public order management and

Academic Dean MSc Policing at

Police Academy of the Netherlands

Professor by special appointment of

Security and collective behaviour at

University of Groningen

I am a behavioural scientist interested in aggression, reconciliation and collective behaviour, specifically in the way in which individuals regulate conflicts and social tension. I have published in the following fields: social psychology, investigative psychology, social simulation, criminal justice, criminology, police studies, human rights, sports studies, ethology, primatology.

For the connection between my behavioural research on chimpanzees and humans, see this interview by Michael Hagmann in Science, vol 289, p. 572, 28 July 2000) and this page

Photography, travel, and sport (walking, running, cycling, field hockey) are my favorite pastimes