Agnieszka Tymula (PhD in Economics, Bocconi University, postdoc in neuroscience, NYU) is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Faculty at the Institute for the Study of Decision Making at NYU. In 2017, she received Society for Neuroeconomics Early Career Award for significant contributions to understanding the basis of decision making.
Agnieszka’s work focuses on the biological foundations of economic preferences and how the constraints placed on the nervous system affect choice. She applies her work to problems in ageing, mood disorders, and obesity. To conduct her research she collaborates with neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, biologists and non-academic institutions including the National Academy of Sciences Museum in Washington and Sydney Opera House.
Agnieszka received grants from the Australian Research Council, AXA Research Fund and Templeton Foundation and published in various international journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Management Science, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Communications, and Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Her work often appears in popular international media. Dr Tymula’s ultimate goal is to relate insights from her research to policy.
Martin Dufwenberg is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Behavioral Economics at the University of Arizona, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg. He defended his PhD in Uppsala in 1995, and were affiliated with universities also in Tilburg, Uppsala, Stockholm, Bonn, as well as Bocconi University in Milan. His research uses game theory and experiments to incorporate insights from psychology into economic analysis. His publications appeared in e.g. the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Neuron, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Economic Theory. His current work focuses on anger, guilt, regret, reciprocity, cheating, informal agreements, social norms, backward induction, and developing the general framework of so-called psychological game theory.