Our People

Directors

Jinrui Pan (Co-Director - on leave)
Assistant Professor in Economics

Jinrui is interested in laboratory experiments and behavioural theory to understand how people make decisions, individually or in groups. Personal Website

Jason Shachat (Co-Director)
Professor in Experimental Economics

Jason researches in the areas of experimental economics, behavioural game theory, behavioural operations management, asset markets, and auctions. Personal Website

Andis Sofianos (Interim Co-Director)
Associate Professor of Economics

Andis’s research interests are within the broad field of Experimental Economics where he studies the impact of individual characteristics, like personality traits and intelligence on strategic interactions. His current work is focused on cooperation, belief updating and cryptocurrency pricing. Personal Website

Academic Staff 

Aleksei Chernulich
Assistant Professor of Economics

Aleskei researches applied econometrics, microeconomics, and experimental economics.

Diego Marino Fages 
Assistant Professor of Economics

Diego's research uses experimental and observational data to study culture, social preferences and social norms.

Demid Getik
Assistant Professor of Economics

Demid researches the intersection of labor, health, and education economics.

Vasileios "Bill" Kallinterakis
Associate Professor in Finance

Bill's research areas include behavioural finance, emerging/frontier markets, institutional Investors, volatility, high frequency trading and neurofinance.

Morten Lau
Professor of Behavioural Finance

Morten uses a combination of lab and field experiments to study decision making over time delay and choice under uncertainty. His work is based on structural econometric estimation of risk and time preferences and provides insights to individual saving and investment decision. Personal Website

Michael Naef
Professor of Economics

Michael works in experimental economics using weird and wonderful substances (testosterone, estrogen, sulpiride) to see what happens. 

Artem Nesterov
Assistant Professor of Finance

Artem's past research concentrated on reputational dynamics in repeated games, while his current focus has shifted towards exploring Deep Learning applications in finance.

Andis Sofianos 
Associate Professor of Economics 

Associate Members

Eren Arbatli
Associate Professor of Economics

Eren has research interests in long-run economic development, political economy, cultural economics.

Bilal Bilal
Assistant Professor of Accounting

Bilal's research interests include auditing, corporate governance, financial reporting, firm digitization, meta-analytical accounting research, and carbon accounting.

Members from other faculties

Ulrik Beierholm
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Ulrik is interested in how the nervous system deals with uncertainty, whether in perception, decision making or learning. Personal Website

Patrick M. Kuhn
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA)

Patrick is interested in the relationship between democratic institutions, economic development, and political violence. Personal Website

Vittorio Merola Marotta 
Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA)

Nick Vivyan
Professor in Politics, School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA)

Nick is interested in public opinion, representation and accountability, with a particular (though by no means exclusive) focus on British politics. Personal Website

Mario Weick
Professor in the Department of Psychology

Mario's research focuses on social hierarchies - how hierarchical relations are formed, and how being at the top or at the bottom of a hierarchy impacts people's thoughts, feelings and actions.

PhD students - current

• Samuel Arispe
• Angel Li
• Zekun Lin 
• Yipin Zhao

Past

• Lukman Hakim [thesis], now Lecturer at the University of Dundee
• Artem Nesterov [thesis], now Assistant Professor at Durham University
• Katy Tabero [thesis], now Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southampton
• Matthew Walker [thesis], now Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University
• Qinjuan Wan [thesis], now Assistant Professor at Central China Normal University
• Sijia Wei [thesis], now Data Consultant at The Information Lab, London
• Hongming Zhao