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= Dieter Wolke = Dieter Wolke PhD, Dr. rer. nat. h.c. Dipl-Psych C. Psychol AFBPsS (born 19 March 1957) is a developmental psychologist and known for his work on understanding early childhood influences on the development of mental health problems and quality of life. He is Professor of Developmental Psychology and Individual Differences at the University of Warwick Department of Psychology and at the Division of Health Sciences at Warwick Medical School since 2006.

Early Life
Wolke was born in Aschendorf (Germany) as the youngest of three children. His parents were refugees during the second world war from [null]Pomerania (now Poland). He never met his grandparents who died during or shortly after the second world war. He grew up in Papenburg where both of his older sisters still live. His early social roots are still firmly in Papenburg where he returns yearly to [null]camp  with his old school friends during Whitsun holidays.

Education
Wolke went to the Evangelische Volksschule Papenburg-Mittelkanal  for his primary education and his secondary education at the Gymnasium Papenburg and the Realschule Papenburg. For his high school education he attended the Telleta-Gross-Gymnasium in Leer, the first year it introduced co-education of girls and boys, and completed his Abitur in the Mathematics-Natural Sciences stream. He studied Psychology with Philosophy, Anthropology and Physiology at the Christian Albrecht-University Kiel from 1976 to 79 when he had a year abroad as a research student in the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, London (UK) supported by the German Academic Exchange Service. From 1980-1982 he continued his post graduate studies at the Christian Albrecht-University Kiel (Germany) and graduated with a Dipl-Psych degree. He earned his Doctorate of Philosophy as part-time student from the University of London Faculty of Science (college: Institute of Education) in 1989.

Career
Wolke has worked at different colleges of the University of London as research assistant (Institute of Education (1983-84; King’s College Hospital London, 1984-85) and then as Research Fellow and Honorary lecturer at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London  (1985-1990).  In 1990, he was appointed as Director of Psychology of the Bavarian Longitudinal Study at the Dr von Haunersches Kinderspital  of the University of Munich. He has been a Director of the ongoing BLS since then.  In 1995, he was appointed as Professor of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire , Department of Psychology, Hatfield (UK) and in 2002 as Professor in Lifespan Psychology at the University of Bristol Medical School  and Deputy Director of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children  (ALSPAC)). Before his appointment at the University of Warwick, he worked in the research funding sector (Scientific Director of the Jacobs Foundation, Zurich, 2004-2006) while holding Visiting Professorships at the University of Bristol and University of Zurich Institute of Psychology.

Awards, Impact & Achievement
2014           Award of Honorary Doctorate in Natural Sciences (Doktor rerum naturalium honoris causa (Dr. rer. Nat. h. c.) by Ruhr-University Bochum awarded for contribution to psychological research.

2014           University of Warwick - Winner of Research Impact and Public Engagement Award - Faculty of Science: Research Impact (Established Career) Prenatal and Family Precursors of Bullying Involvement in Childhood and their Consequences into Early Adulthood

2013           American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - 2013 Annual Meeting Senior Researcher Award.

2011           Institute of Mental Health - Prize for best scientific publication in 2010 (for Johnson S, Hollis C, Hennessy E, Kochhar P, Wolke D & Marlow N. Psychiatric disorders in extremely preterm children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2010, 49, 453-463).

2006           Award for Excellence in Research, MENSA Education & Research Foundation (www.mensafoundation.org)

For: Stability in cognition across early childhood - A developmental cascade

Bornstein, M. H., Hahn, C. S.,, C., Haynes, O. M., Slater, A., Golding, J., Wolke, D., & the ALSPAC study team

Psychological Science - 2006  Volume, number: 17, 2 Pages: 151-158

2005           Second Place, Outstanding Publication Award 2005, European Association for Research on learning and Instruction (www.earli.eu.org)

For: Pathways to school achievement in very preterm and full term children

Schneider, Wolke, Schlagmuller, and Meyer

European Journal of Psychology of Education  - 2004  Volume, number: 19, 4  Pages: 358 - 406

final score 80,5

2001           Prize for the best interactive marketing service (D. Wolke provided and edited expert material for “Through your babies eyes”), produced by Saatchi & Saatchi for Pampers UK.

1997           International film prize “Grand Prix Leonardo” for the Best Health Educational Film by B. Sonnenhueter (D. Wolke Scientific advisor and interviewee): Film: “When life already starts at 170 days” (a film about very preterm babies).

1996           Inclusion in Marquis’ “Who is Who in the World” (and 14th edition 1997; USA).

1994           Awarded a "Decree of Merit" and inclusion in "Who’s who of Medicine" and "Who’s Who of Intellectuals" (International Biographical Institute, Cambridge);

"Man of the Year Award - 1994" by the American Biographical Institute.

1988           Elected as Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)

1988           Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol.) status according to the Royal Charter, GB. Assignment of "Practicing Certificate" according to the Royal Charter.

1985           European Trainer Certificate in the Brazelton NBAS.

1982           Harvard University, Cambridge (USA), Boston Children’s Hospital, Training in the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS).