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I am an Economist specialising on Behavioural and Experimental Economics. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Economics and Policy Department of the Technical University of Munich, School of Management. I obtained my PhD in 2019 from the University of Nottingham.

I am primarily interested inn questions related to how people make decisions under risk or uncertainty. Specifically, I explore how different modes of information-acquisition can influence risky behaviour as well as the willingness to cooperate in social dilemmas. I pursue these questions through a mixture of empirical methods involving lab, online and field experiments and use of state of the art statistical modelling with techniques including Bayesian Hierarchical models. As a behavioural economist, I am committed to academic research that translates to practical impact and policy recommendations. The topic of medical decision making is of particular interest to me. In a recent field-experiment, I explore different channels for motivating people in high-risk group to vaccinate for the seasonal influenza and observe how their subjective-risk perceptions influence this decision.

• An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, forthcoming; link to working paper
• Limits of the social-benefit motive among high-risk patients: a field experiment on influenza vaccination behaviour, BMC-Public Health (2020)
• The role of information search and its influence on risk preferences, Theory and Decision (2018)

• The Description - Experience gap in cooperation; link to working paper

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