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Prof. Peter Nijkamp received honorary doctorates from Adam Mickiewicz University

Photo: PAP 2015 / Jakub Kaczmarczyk Photo: PAP 2015 / Jakub Kaczmarczyk

Expert in the field of spatial economics Prof. Peter Nijkamp received an honorary doctorate from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań last week. Dutch professor is associated with the Poznań university since 2011.

The decision to award the highest academic honours to the researcher was made by the university Senate at the end of November 2014 at the request of the Faculty of Geography and Geology.

Prof. Peter Nijkamp is an economist and researcher of socio-economic geography. In his research, he investigates issues including regional economic development, spatial modelling, urban systems, spatial interaction, migration and mobility, and natural and cultural resources.

"Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań fully recognises the indisputable, international scientific authority of Prof. Nijkamp, researcher who crosses the borders of scientific disciplines in search for scientific truth, and his outstanding teaching, publication and popularising achievements" - said the university rector, Prof. Bronisław Marciniak during the ceremony.

Rector emphasised that Prof. Nijkamp’s cooperation with AMU is a great honour for the university.

"We value his keen and comprehensive contacts with our university, and especially with the researchers from the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management. His Polish activity makes Prof. Nijkamp for teachers and students in Poland an excellent reference with regard to the world\'s best practice in the field of scientific research concerning wider spatial management" - he said.

Scientific achievements of Prof. Nijkamp include more than 2.3 thousand scientific publications, including 114 books and monographs. During the ceremony, the speakers emphasised that Nijkamp was 14th in the September 2013 Research Paper in Economics (RePEc) ranking of the achievements of 37 thousand authors from all over the world. His work was ranked higher than the achievements of many Nobel Prize winners in economics.

"When we look today at the enormous scientific, organizational, expert and popularising achievements of one man, it raises the question of the limits of human intellectual capacity. And the answer find is that they are determined by the most distinguished individuals, undoubtedly including Prof. Nijkamp" - said in a eulogy honorary doctorate supervisor Prof. Waldemar Ratajczak.

Prof. Nijkamp, thanking for the award, said that he was proud to become a member of the "community of eminent scientists".

"With the intellectual capital that you represent, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań has become a beacon of knowledge and a place on the map of the great country that is Poland, in which science so brilliantly develops" - he said.

Prof. Nijkamp is one of the 50 most cited scientists in the world, he sits on the editorial boards of 40 journals. He is a winner of several international prizes and awards, honorary doctor of the universities in Brussels, Athens, Bucharest and Faro. He is also a member of several international scientific organizations, and holder of the highest Dutch academic distinction - Spinoza Prize.

Over the course of his career, he worked with the Government of the Netherlands, the OECD, the World Bank, the Council of Europe, the European Research Council and the European Science Foundation.

Peter Nijkamp is the second economist and seventh geography professor to receive an honorary doctorates from the Poznań university. He thus joined the group of 132 honorary doctors of the university. Among the laureates of the highest academic title are John Paul II, Ignacy Mościcki, Roman Dmowski, Józef Piłsudski, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Javier Solana, Gustav Herling-Grudziński, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański and Al Gore. (PAP)

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