Check out the new book on how ambiguity avoidance shapes our lives “Nonsense: the power of not knowing” by Jamie Holmes! Some of my own work on ambiguity has made it to the book and some fancy media outlets following its publication: Fast Company, The Scientist, City A.M.
After its huge success in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and Hong Kong, “Raising The Bar” series is coming to Sydney. You can learn more about this fun initiative that puts together two best things in the world – science and beer – by visiting this website
My talk is now sold out. Extra tickets will be released on October 12th. Book your calendars for October, 20th at 6.30 in Freda’s!
Thirty students with background in neuroscience, economics or psychology and twenty one faculty got together for two weeks to talk, learn and brainstorm about how people decide at the NYU-Duke Summer Institute in Neuroeconomics that I co-directed. More about the Institute here.
Together with Dr. Stefanie Schurer we were extremely happy to receive seed money from the LCC for a project that will investigate the role of risk and time preferences as well as personality traits in a randomised control trail that assists 400 overweight patients in losing and maintaining healthy weight. We are working on this project with a great team from the Boden Institute at the University of Sydney. Stay tuned for the results!
After a year of planning and too many advisory board meetings, the Brain and Mind Research Institute at Sydney has been transformed to a Special Priority Area of Collaboration (SPARC). The goal of this new University of Sydney SPARC is to create an integrated research on brain and mind.
More on the transformation
I received the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council to investigate the effect that observation has on behaviour. For the next three years I can focus on my research free from teaching obligations.
My co-author prof. Paul Glimcher came all the way from NYC to Sydney to give an excellent talk as a part of “Sydney Ideas” series. There was some great media coverage related to his trip. A fun fact: one of the interviews was done on the Coogee-Bondi coastal walk.
More on Sydney Ideas series: Coverage from prof. Glimcher’s visit
The Conversation: article “Explainer: neuroeconomics, where science and economics meet”
At this 14th Kavli Futures Symposium me and professors from NYU and Duke discussed how biological measurement of preferences may play a role in shaping social policy. Watch the panel here
This year our Dean invited three faculty members to welcome the alumni and friends of the faculty by giving them a short overview about our research. Below you can see me talking about neuroeconomics and the ageing brain.
More about the event