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
Interests: Health Economics, Decision-making under risk
Expertise: Financial incentives for health behavior change, policy evaluation methods
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
Nahed EDDAI
Postdoctoral researcher, IÉSEG
Interests: Decision making under uncertainty; Behavioral and experimental economics;
Environmental Economics
Expertise: Decision-making under risk and uncertainty, experimental methods
Ivan MITROUCHEV
Postdoctoral researcher, IÉSEG
Interests: Behavioral economics, philosophy of economics, ethics
Expertise: Welfare evaluation, normative criteria for decision-making, identity economics
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.
James TREMEWAN
Postdoctoral researcher, IÉSEG
Interests: Behavioural and experimental economics, persuasion, cooperation in social
dilemmas
Expertise: Belief elicitation, multilateral bargaining and coalition formation, social
norms
Doctoral Student
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
Research Assistants
Arunima TICKU
Research Assistant (iRisk) and M2 student (Université Paris 1, Paris 5 and Paris School
of Economics)
Interests: Sustainability policies, uncertainty and risk, moral decision-making,
behaviour-science based policy-making
Expertise: Social and Clinical Psychology, behaviour models, sustainable behaviour
elicitation, mental health policies in India
External Members
André DE PALMA
Emeritus professor Cergy-Paris Université.
Interests: Discrete choice models, Industrial organization, Transport and Urban Economics.
Expertise: Foundation of discrete choice models, elicitation of risk of private investors,
modelling and evaluation of public policies.
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
Serge MACÉ
Associate Professor in Economics, Edhec Business School
Interests: Behavioral economics, decisions under risk
Expertise: Reference-dependent preferences
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
Rémi SUCHON
Research fellow at Anthropo-Lab, Université Catholique de Lille
Interests: Behavioral economics; Experimental economics
Expertise: Social preferences, social identity, cooperation
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