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Professional background

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

2009- : Employed as associate professor of Design, Creativity and Marketing at Copenhagen Business School.

2006-2008: Employed as assistant professor at CBS, co-financed by Carlsbergfondet, with research focussing on mental simulation in design.

Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

2002 - 2005 : Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology. Project entitled: 'Creative cognition in the real-world: Examining activity and cognition in the creative process, in an InVivo-InVitro study'.

2002: Candidate in Psychology (MSc). Thesis entitled: 'The Creative Process and Reality: An analysis of search and cognition in the creative process and a call for an ecological cognitive framework for creativity research'.

1998: Bachelor degree in Psychology. Thesis entitled: 'The Possibility and the Impossibility of Creativity and Fantasy in Activity Theory'. 

Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State College, NY, US, 2000

Supervised by Professor Gerard Puccio, taught in a number of creativity related subjects, including Creative Problem Solving.

LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, PA, US, 2002-2003

Supervised by Professor Christian D. Schunn while working on experiments and real-world research on incubation.

Teaching excperience

Course taught

Location When

'Social and Personality Psychology'

Odder Højskole 1998

'Crisis Psychology'

Odder Højskole 1998

'Social and Personality Psychology', instruktor

Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus 1998, 1999

'Psychology today'

Odder Højskole 1999

'Cognitive Psychology', instruktor

Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus 1999, 2000

'IQ and intelligence- a story of political incorrectness'

Odder Højskole 1999, 2001, 2002

'Developmental Psychology', instruktor

Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus 2000

'Creativity as a phenomenon'

Odder Højskole 2002

'Research methods'

Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus 2004

'Cognitive Psychology' - lectures on problem solving, discovery and creativity

Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus 2004, 2005

'Managing Market Creation'

Copenhagen Business School 2006, 2007, 2008

'Communication'

Copenhagen Business School 2006, 2007, 2008

'Creative Marketing'

Copenhagen Business School 2006
'Creativity and innovation'
Copenhagen Business School 2007, 2008

Research grants

  • Post.Doc. stipend from Carlsbergfondet 2005

  • Grant from 'Programkomiteen for kreativitet, innovation, nye produktionsformer og oplevelsesøkonomi' (KINO), from the Strategic Research Counsil 2006 (co-researcher), entitled Creative Encounters

  • Grant for technical equipment from Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation 2006

  • DESIRE, EU 7th Frame Programme, Marie Curie/PEOPLE. Managing the CBS part (2 PhD's and a post.doc.) of an EU project on creativity in design, involving 13 PhD fellowships and multiple partners across Europe.

Travel grants

  • Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond
  • Danmark-Amerika Fondet
  • Knud Højgaards fond
  • Det Samfundsvidenskabelige fakultet, Aarhus Universitet

Reviewer for

  • Memory & Cognition

  • Cognitive Science Society Conference

  • Journal of Marketing Management

Ph.D. supervisor for

  • Malene Leerberg, Designskolen i Kolding

  • Stefan Wiltschnig, CBS

  • Balder Onarheim, CBS

Other

  • Member of 'censorkorpset' in Psychology, Denmark

 

 

 

 



Bo T. Christensen
 

Creativity Researcher
Associate professor, Ph.D.
Copenhagen Business School

 

bo@virksom.dk