Pål Davidsen

Pål I. Davidsen is Professor Emeritus of System Dynamics (SD) at UiB, Norway (https://www.uib.no/en/rg/dynamics) and Professor at Riga Technical University. He was twice a Visiting Scholar at MIT (1985 / -90 -91) and served with Professor Jay W. Forrester (MIT) as Associate Chair of the Pre-College Education Project. At UiB, he founded the System Dynamics Group and the Educational Information Science and Technology Programme and is co-founder of the European Masters Programme in SD. He served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Karlstad, Sweden (1987-92). For a number of years, he also served as visiting professor at Chalmers, Sweden, and the Royal Naval Academy, Norway. He served as President (2003) and as VP of Publications in the System Dynamics Society (SDS) (2015-17), received the SDS Outstanding Service Award (2014) cand received the SDS Lifetime Achievement Award (2024). Davidsen has published e.g. on natural resource management, public health and epidemiology, analysis of complex, dynamic systems, and model-based interactive learning environments.