DRAŽEN PRELEC
The Digital Equipment Corp. Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management and a Professor of Management Science and Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Prelec holds appointments in the Department of Economics and in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. His research deals with the psychology and neuroscience of decision-making, including behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, risky choice, time discounting, self-control, and consumer behavior. He works on both the development of normative decision theory and the exploration of the empirical failures of that theory, using behavioral and fMRI methods. A current project on “self-signaling” tries to understand the strange power of non-causal motivation—when individuals favor actions that are diagnostic of good outcomes, even though these actions have little or no causal force. Diagnostic motivation is real, and is probably essential for human self-control. Its cognitive and neural mechanisms are not well understood, however. A second “Bayesian truth serum” project deals with scoring systems for evaluating individual and collective judgment in knowledge domains where no external truth criterion is available. Examples would be long-range forecasts, political or historical inferences, and artistic or legal interpretations. Prelec is developing scoring systems that reward honest judgments and that can identify truth even when majority opinion is wrong. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has received a number of distinguished research awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Prelec holds an AB in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a PhD in experimental psychology from Harvard University.
HAN BLEICHRODT
Professor of behavioural economics at the Erasmus School of Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in 1996 at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Professor Bleichrodt's research activities focus on decisions under uncertainty and over time. He has a particular interest in those decisions involving health. He is an author and co-author of numerous publications and research work for which he won numerous awards such as Decision Analysis 2003 publications award (best paper published in decision analysis in 2001) and Decision Analysis 2009 publications awards (best paper published in decision analysis in 2007). Between 2014 and 2018, he was a department editor Decision Analysis of Management Science. He is a winner of Top Senior Researcher Erasmus School of Economics (for years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), ERIM High Performance Member (for period from 2010 to 2018); Distinguished Service Award Management Science (for period from 2009 to 2013) and Umbra Erasmi medal Erasmus University in 2015.
ZVONIMIR BAŠIĆ
Senior Research Fellow and a member of the Experimental Economics Group at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. The institute is a part of Germany's leading research institution - The Max Planck Society. Zvonimir is also a member of the Center for Social and Economic Behavior at the University of Cologne (C-SEB). He obtained a PhD in Economics at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) in December 2018. Furthermore, he finished two master programs — one at the University of Zagreb with a focus on Economics and Finance in September 2012, and another at the University of Bonn with a focus on Economics in September 2013. His academic work foremost lies within the field of Behavioral and Experimental Economics where he particularly focuses on understanding the foundations of prosocial, cooperative, and moral behavior. In his work, he mostly relies on experimental tools, either by running experiments in the lab or by setting up labs in the field.
SILVIA GOLEM
Associate professor at Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism Split, University of Split and CERGE-EI Teaching Fellow. She obtained her Phd diploma in Economics at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent (UK). At the present time, she teaches different courses: Methodology of Economic Research, Urban Economics, Spatial Economics and Macroeconomic Planning. She actively participates in scientific projects mainly related to methodology of economic research, urban and public economics.
NICOLAO BONINI
Professor at the Department of Economics and Management and Head of the Consumer Neuroscience Lab at the University of Trento (Field of research: Cognitive psychology). He is also a Former president of the European Association of Decision Making (EADM). He obtained his PhD in experimental psychology at University of Trieste, in 1992. He is an author of numerous studies in the area of decision-making. He won the Prize for the best Italian PhD Thesis, May 1993.
IVAN ROMIĆ
CCSS at Kobe University. He obtained a PhD in Computational Economics in June, 2019 from Graduate School of Economics at Osaka City University and master's degree focused on international economics and European integration from Graduate School of Economics at University of Split, Croatia in February, 2013. In his research he uses methods from computational and evolutionary social sciences to tackle issues such as evolution and maintenance of cooperation, trust, and fairness in society and nature.
FERNANDO P. SANTOS
Fernando P. Santos is an assistant professor at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam (Field of research; Multiagent systems, Game Theory, Complex networks). He completed his MSc in Computer Science (2013) and his PhD (2018) at the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Lisboa). Between 2018 and 2021, he was a James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. He won the Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (2019), the Best PhD Thesis in Artificial Intelligence (2017-2018) by the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence and the INESC-ID award for Best PhD student (2017). He also worked as a research assistant at GAIPS (INESC-ID) and as a member of the ATP-Group. He served as teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of IST and was a visiting student at Princeton University, TU Delft (The Netherlands) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). His research work lies at the interface of AI and complex systems. His research work lies at the interface of AI and complex systems.
ANDIS SOFIANOS
Andis Sofianos is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department. He was previously a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the chair of Economic Theory II (Jörg Oechssler) in the Economics Department at the University of Heidelberg. Andis completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick where he also obtained an MSc in Economics and Psychological Science and a BSc in Economics. In his research, Andis combines theory, experimental methods, and agent-based modelling to study the impact of individual characteristics, such as personality traits and intelligence, on strategic interactions as well as individual decision making. His research interests are interdisciplinary as he combines insights from economics, psychology, and neuroscience in understanding the relationship of intelligence and personality on pro-social behaviours, namely: trust, cooperation, and coordination. More recently, Andis has pursued projects aiming to understand individual attitudes and beliefs when faced with unforeseen events and an experimental study of price bubble formation in cryptocurrency markets.
JOSIPA VIŠIĆ
Joined the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of Split team in 2006. She is an associate professor and has been Deputy Head of the Department for Economics at FEBT. She teaches several courses on undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels related to microeconomics and corporate restructuring. Further, she has been involved in the Professional practice – Service Learning course as a mentor. Over the years, Josipa has been enrolled in various scientific and professional projects. She is a member of the Croatian Operational Research Society (CRORS) and a member of the organising committee of The International Conference on Operational Research (KOI). Her research interests have previously been related to microeconomic aspects of mergers and acquisitions. However, recently, her research has been more directed toward the economic aspects of robotisation and the ageing of the population. In other words, she plans to focus more on the microeconomic perspective of these two inevitable economic and social changes.
ANGELO ROMANO
Angelo Romano is an Assistant Professor at the unit Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology at the Institute of Psychology. He is interested in understanding the psychology of conflict and cooperation among people, groups, and nations.He applies theory and methods from economics, social psychology and evolutionary biology to investigate:(a) the relation between ingroup favoritism and reputation-based cooperation, (b) the predictive power of different psychological mechanisms (e.g. reciprocity, conformity) in promoting cooperation, and (c) cross-cultural differences in intergroup discrimination in trust and cooperation. He completed Master;s degree in mind sciences summa cum laude from the University of Turin (2012-2014) and Double Ph.D. at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands and University of Turin, Italy in January, 2018. He is a winner of Otto Hahn Medal for the year 2018 by the Max Planck Society for his work on human cooperation and parochial altruism across societies; best dissertation in social psychology award in Italy (for the year 2017-2018); ASPO award for best dissertation in the Netherlands; Faculty Junior Career Award, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Best Presentation Award, 17th International Conference on Social Dilemmas (2017).
GIULIANA SPADARO
Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is interested in understanding how trust and cooperation vary across the globe, and how institutions can account for this variation. Her work is at the intersection of cultural psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics and she applies different methods such as meta-analyses, experiments, and analyses of large-scale surveys. She completed a Master's degree in Mind Science (University of Torino, IT), and a PhD in Psychological, Anthropological, and Education Science (University of Torino, IT). She is co-director of the Cooperation Databank, an open access, machine-readable, dataset of empirical studies on human cooperation. For this work, she is among the recipients of the Open Science Award (2021) - Awarded by Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL).
LENA MALEŠEVIĆ PEROVIĆ
Full professor at Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism Split, University of Split and Head of doctoral studies in Economics at the same Faculty. She is also CERGE-EI (Prague, Czech Republic) Teaching Fellow. She obtained her MA in 2002, and Phd in 2007 at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent (UK). She teaches Macroeconomics I, II and III and Macroeconomic Planning at the undergraduate and graduate level. She actively participates in domestic and international scientific projects. Her research interests include fiscal and monetary policy, issues of growth, inflation, public debt, government expenditures and sustainable development. Her current research work is dedicated to behavioral and experimental economics.