About

Compared to other group-living species, humans show a remarkable extent of cooperation and readiness to share resources to help each other. At times, however, selfishness trumps pro-sociality, competition is more rewarding than working together, and cooperation is used as a mean to subordinate and hurt others. My research interest broadly revolves around the behavioral and neurobiological underpinnings of these dichotomies – pro-sociality and cooperation on the one side and selfishness and conflict on the other side. To approach these topics, I try to combine insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience, making use of theoretical models, simulations, laboratory experiments, and neuroscientific methods like brain imaging or non-invasive brain-stimulation. In the past, I also investigated non-strategic value-based decision making.

Short CV

since 2022	Chair of Social- and Economic Psychology, University of Zurich
since 2017	Assistant Professor, Leiden University
2015-2016	Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam
2015	PhD, Maastricht University
2010 – 2014	PhD candidate, School of Business and Economics and Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University
2010	Master of Science (Diplompsychologe) in Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt
2005 – 2010	Study of Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Co-Authors

Some of my co-authors, collaborators, friends I worked with:


Jan Zimmermann	Eva Woelbert	Martin Strobel	Arno Riedl	Sanae Barth	Sabrina Strang	Alex Sack

Rainer Goebel	Zsombor Méder	Carsten De Dreu	Simon Columbus	Alex Vostroknutov	Franzi Emmerling	Margarita Leib

Theo Offerman	Shaul Shalvi	Michael Giffin	Ruthie Pliskin