iRisk members conduct state-of-the-art research, participate in public discourse about risk and uncertainty, and
educate the next generation of leaders in decision-making, risk analysis and related disciplines
Members

Loïc BERGER
Director of iRisk
Research Professor in Economics, CNRS, IÉSEG
Interests: Decision-making under risk and uncertainty; Environmental and climate change
economics.
Expertise: Belief and preference elicitation under uncertainty, evaluation of public
policies, applications to health and environmental decisions.

Thomas EPPER
Co-Director of iRisk
Research Professor in Economics, CNRS, IÉSEG
Interests: Decision-making under risk and uncertainty, intertemporal choice, inequality and
redistribution.
Expertise: Modelling economic decision-making, preference and belief elicitation,
applications to insurance, household and policy decisions.

Ilke AYDOGAN
Assistant Professor in Economics, IÉSEG
Interests: Behavioral and experimental economics; judgment and decision making under risk and
uncertainty.
Expertise: Non-expected utility theories; experimental elicitation of subjective beliefs and
preferences under risk and ambiguity.

David CRAINICH
Researcher in Economics, CNRS, IÉSEG
Interests: Risk theory; Health economics.
Expertise: Higher order risk preferences; effect of genetic information on prevention
actions, financial incentives for health behavior change.

Hugues CHENET
Associate Professor of Sustainability, IÉSEG
Interests: Ecological economics; sustainability; macrofinancial system and regulation.
Expertise: Radical uncertainty and precautionary approaches; climate and economic modelling
in finance; time horizon discrepancies in decision-making.

Louis EECKHOUDT
Emeritus Professor in Economics, IÉSEG
Interests: Decision-making under risk.
Expertise: Expected utility theory, applications to insurance and health economics.

Léontine GOLDZAHL
Associate Professor in Economics, IÉSEG
Interests: Health Economics, Decision-making under risk.
Expertise: Financial incentives for health behavior change, policy evaluation methods.

Stefano NASINI
Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, IÉSEG
Interests: Optimization Theory and Algorithms in Network Economics and Decision Theory.
Expertise: Optimization Theory, Computational Statistics, Algorithms, Network Theory.

Rabia NESSAH
Full Professor in Quantitative Methods, IÉSEG
Interests: Game Theory and Optimization.
Expertise: Game Thoery, Optimization Theory, Algorithms.

Uyanga TURMUNKH
Assistant Professor in Economics, IÉSEG
Interests: Judgment and decision-making, risk and ambiguity, environment, cooperation,
behavioral interventions.
Expertise: Theories of decision-making, experimental and survey methods, environmental
behavior.
Post Docs

Huiyun DING
Postdoctoral researcher in Quantitative Methods, IÉSEG
Interests: Social Network Learning, Structural Econometrics, Information Disclosure and
Processing.
Expertise: Computational Statistics, Game Theory, Decision Science.

Maria José MONTOYA
Postdoctoral researcher, IÉSEG
Interests: Decision-making under risk and ambiguity, environmental economics, public
policy.
Expertise: Lab experiments, risk and ambiguity attitudes, pro-environmental behaviors.

Thibault RICHARD
Postdoctoral researcher, IÉSEG
Interests: Behavioral Economics; Decision-making under risk and uncertainty.
Expertise: Bayesian Statistics; Structural Econometrics; Preference Elicitation Methods.
Doctoral Students

Edson Antonio GONCALVES DE SOUZA
Doctoral student, IÉSEG
Interests: Stochastic Optimization and Algorithms
Expertise: Stochastic Optimization, Combinatorial Algorithms, Scheduling

Elina ISHMUKHAMETOVA
Doctoral student, ULille
Interests: Decision-making under risk and uncertainty, attitudes toward AI, choice and autonomy
Expertise: Experimental methods, algorithmic decision-making

Tabitha Kisakye NAFULA
Doctoral student, ULille
Interests: Decision making under risk and uncertainty, applied behavioral and experimental economics, insurance
Expertise: Development policy and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Silvia MONTAGNANI
Doctoral student, IÉSEG
Interests: Critical transitions in nature and society, Limits to growth in uncertain environments, Biodiversity as insurance, Political economy of the Amazon rainforest, Climate/finance interactions, Cascading tipping points
Expertise: Ecological Economics, Social-ecological systems dynamics, Climate change adaptation
Research Assistant

Patrick TEHRANI
Research Assistant (iRisk)
Interests: Behavioural pricing, financial economics, behavioural economics and investment decision-making under uncertainty and risk
Expertise: Behavioural pricing theory, behavioural economics and game theory
External Members

Nahed EDDAI
Researcher INRAE, Beta
Interests: Decision making under uncertainty; Behavioral and experimental economics; Environmental Economics
Expertise: Decision-making under risk and uncertainty, experimental methods

Emmanuel KEMEL
Researcher in Economics, CNRS, HEC Paris
Interests: Attitudes towards risk, time and ambiguity, trust social choice, AI-assisted decisions
Expertise: Design and econometric treatment of lab, survey and field experiments

Fabrice LELEC
Professor in Economics, University of Lille
Interests: Risk and uncertainty, social preferences, choice and autonomy
Expertise: Experimental methods, models of social preferences, non-expected utility theories

Wanda MIMRA
Associate Professor in Economics, ESCP Business School
Interests: Markets with information problems, cooperation, discrimination and justice
Expertise: Insurance economics, credence good markets

Rustam ROMANIUC
Associate Professor in Economics, Montpellier Business School and researcher at CEE-M
Interests: Social preferences, incentives and norms, behavioral public policy
Expertise: Experimental methods

Vincent THÉROUDE
Assistant Professor in Economics, Université de Lorraine
Interests: Behavioral economics; Experimental economics
Expertise: Social dilemmas and heterogeneity, Uncertainty and social preferences, preferences for redistribution

James TREMEWAN
Assistant Professor, Tor Vergata, Universita Delgli Studi di Roma
Interests: Behavioural and experimental economics, persuasion, cooperation in social dilemmas
Expertise: Belief elicitation, multilateral bargaining and coalition formation, social norms