I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Economics and Policy Department of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), School of Management. I joined TUM in September of 2020 where I conduct research and teach at the undegraduate level on the topic of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. In my free time I like to play with mathematical riddles, drink/ talk about/ conduct research and grow my own wine as well as torture myself through the sport of rowing.

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I grew up in Athens, Greece. I studied in the French-Hellenic high-school: Jeanne D’ Arc. Following my 2003 national victory in the sport of rowing, I received a sports-scholarship and joined the national sports-high school. In 2009 I obtained my BSc in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus. I then moved to the Netherlands to pursue my studies as an economist at the University of Amsterdam.  In 2013 I received my MSc in Economics, with the specialization in Behavioral Economics and Game Theory.

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On 2014 I was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s scholarship for research excellence and moved to the UK to pursue my PhD in Behavioural and Experimental Economics at the University of Nottingham under the joint supervision of Professor Chris Starmer and Professor Robin Cubitt. In 2019 I defended my thesis and was awarded my PhD degree with no corrections. The examinors of my defense were Professor Simon Gächter (internal) and Professor Mohammed Abdellaoui (external). From September of 2018 and until August of 2020 I was also employed as a research fellow at the University of Nottingham, as a member of the Network for Integrated Behavioural Sciences (NIBS). This network comprises of leading behavioural economists from the University of Nottingham, the University of Warwick and the University of East Anglia. The network’s reach extends to institutions such as the Carnegie Mellon University which I visited as a research scholar in the Centre for Behavioral and Decision Research (CBDR), during the autumn of 2018 and spring of 2019.

My research focuses on studying the underpinnings of human decision making with an emphasis on decisions under risk or uncertainty. My commitment as a behavioural economist is to contribute to academic research that translates directly to practical impact and policy recommendations. To this end I elicit risky behaviour in the lab under the naturalistic environment of the decisions from experience paradigm. I am also interested in methodological questions such as maximising the predictive ability of decision models like Prospect Theory through different elicitation and estimation techniques. The policy-oriented part of my work involves field experiments centred on medical decision making biases with the goal of improving related health policies.