Members

The iRisk Center of Research is directed by Dr. Loïc BERGER and co-directed by Dr. Thomas EPPER.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Louis EECKHOUDT

Emeritus Professor in Economics, IÉSEG

Interests: Decision-making under risk.

Expertise: Expected utility theory, applications to insurance and health economics.

 Léontine GOLDZAHL

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

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.

Nessah Rabia

Rabia NESSAH

Full Professor in Quantitative Methods, IÉSEG

Interests: Game Theory and Optimization.

Expertise: Game Thoery, Optimization Theory, Algorithms.

Uyanga TURMUNKH

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

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

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

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

Edson Antonio GONCALVES DE SOUZA

Doctoral student, IÉSEG

Interests: Stochastic Optimization and Algorithms
Expertise: Stochastic Optimization, Combinatorial Algorithms, Scheduling

Elina ISHMUKHAMETOVA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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