Peter Suedfeld

Suedfeld is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (the National Academy), the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association (6 Divisions), and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He is a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics, a Fellow International of the Explorers Club, and the only psychologist elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He has received the Canadian Psychological Society's Donald O. Hebb Award, its highest award for distinguished scientific contributions, as well as the Society's Gold Medal for distinguished and enduring lifetime contributions to Canadian psychology and its Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology. Other awards include the Canadian Polar Medal, Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Medal, the highest award for scientific contributions from the International Society of Political Psychology, the Antarctica Service Medal of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Zachor Award of the Parliament of Canada for contributions by Holocaust survivors to Canadian society. He has chaired the Canadian Antarctic Research Program and the Life Sciences Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency. He continues his research and organizational activities at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2019 Suedfeld was admitted to the Order of Canada.

Peter Suedfeld was born in Hungary to Jewish parents who died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. The young Suedfeld escaped with the help of the International Red Cross and immigrated to the United States after World War II. After three years of service in the United States Army, he received his BA from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1960, and his MA and PhD in experimental psychology from Princeton University in 1963. He taught at the University of Illinois and Rutgers University prior to joining the University of British Columbia in 1972 as head of the Department of Psychology. He later became Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, and now holds Emeritus status.

Peter Suedfeld OC FRSC (born August 30, 1935) is a Hungarian-Canadian professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia.