Erik is founding Editor of the International Journal of Cognition, Technology & Work, where he also served as one of the two Editors-in-Chief for the first ten years of the journal. He is a member of a range of editorial boards and advisory boards.

Erik Hollnagel has been member of the Scientific Committee of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, member of the Risk Commission of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (1986-1989).  He is also a co-founder and past President of the Resilience Engineering Association.

Erik Hollnagel is Senior Professor of Patient Safety at the University of Jönköping, Sweden. He holds a M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Copenhagen, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Aarhus.