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K. Helmut Reich, Dr.-Ing. (electrical engineering), Ph.D. (physics), Dr. theol. (psychology of religion) is Professor emeritus and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at Fribourg University, School of Education. After a successful career at the European CERN Research Centre for Particle Physics Helmut started a second career when others would rather have retired. He started to engage with various social science topics. His main research interests became the development of epistemic cognition and religiosity / religiousness as well as the relation of science and religion.
He has published numerous articles in the Archive for the Psychology of Religion, the British Journal of Religious Education, The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Zygon, and others, as well as a number of book chapters and handbook/encyclopaedia articles, and published his core work in the monograph “Developing the horizons of the mind. Relational and contextual reasoning and the resolution of cognitive conflict, Cambridge University Press, 2002.” He is co-editor of five edited volumes (four on religious development and one on relational and contextual reasoning in various domains).
Helmut received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association Division 36 in 1997 and was elected Academic Fellow of The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science in 2002.
Helmut serves on the scientific committee for the symposium, and will act as a facilitator and as a contributor to the special issue.
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