Biography
Fernando González-Reigosa, Ph.D., graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras with a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 with a major in psychology and a minor in political sciences. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Florida State University in 1972. That same year, he became a founding faculty member of Florida International University in the Department of Psychology. He was also a joint-appointee in the FIU Humanities program. In 1989, Fernando became Dean of Undergraduate Studies. The following year, he created the Honors College together with members of the undergraduate studies staff and a group of selected faculty from all the colleges at the university.
He was Founding Dean of the Honors College until 2001. From 2001 to 2006, he was the director of the FIU Research Center in Madrid, Spain. Upon his retirement from FIU in 2006, he was granted the title of Dean Emeritus of the Honors College and received the Honors College Award of Excellence. He has been an invited lecturer at several universities abroad. These institutions include the American University in Athens, Greece, the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the School of Medicine of the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, where he delivered a Master Lecture (Lección Magistral) on the Applications of Hypnotherapy to the Medical Practice.
He is now retired and resides in Little Havana in Miami, Florida.