Jaan Valsine r,born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1951, is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995-2025) of the Sage journal,Culture & Psychologyand Editor-In-Chief,Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science(Springer, 2007-2026). After working for over three decades in USA at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Clark University, he accepted in 2013 the position ofNiels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychologyat Aalborg University, Denmark.   Valsiner is the Head of theCompetence Center on Cultural Psychologyat University of Tallinn, Estonia. He focuses on theoretical innovation, with monographsThe guided mind(Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998,Ornamented Lives(Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishers, 2018) andSensuality in Human Living(Springer, 2020). He has also published a major theoretical treatiseGeneral Human Psychology(t2021 by Springer) that would synthesize William Stern&s personology with his Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics.  

Jaan Valsiner has been awarded major research prizes in Europe-- theAlexander von Humboldt Prizeof 1995 in Germany, and theHans-Kilian-Preisof 2017. As part of his credo for building psychology on an international and trans-cultural basis, he has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.   Since 2017 he is aForeign Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.