My name is Ad van der Ven (born the 20-th of june, 1935). I have studied Psycholgy at the University of Nijmegen (1957-1963). I completed my doctoral dissertation in 1969. I used to work at the Mathematical Psychology Department, a subdivision of the former NICI institute now incorporated in the Donders Institute at the Radboud University Nijmegen in Nijmegen. Now I am working at the Department of Pedagogy: Learning and Development, which is a department at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Radboud University Nijmegen in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

My interests are relativity theory (physics) and inhibition theory (psychology) and lottocracy (politics).