2009 Recipient:
Hans-Werner Wahl , PhD

Hans-Werner Wahl received his Ph.D. in psychology from the
Free University of Berlin in 1989 and was from 1997 to 2005 Professor of Social
and Environmental Gerontology and chair of the Department of Social and
Environmental Gerontology at the German Centre for Research on Ageing at
Heidelberg University, Germany. Since 2006, he is Professor of Psychological
Aging Research at the Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany.
His research activities include the understanding of the role of
physical-technological environments for ageing well, adaptational processes in
the context of age-related chronic functional loss, processes of awareness of
ageing in a lifespan perspective and intervention research.