people | briq – Institute on Behavior & Inequality

our team

Our team connects researchers of briq, the University of Bonn, and leading academic institutions across the globe. Armin Falk and Florian Zimmermann, both professors in Bonn, are heading the group. Postdoctoral fellows spend a gap year at briq allowing them to follow an independent agenda. Subsequently, they take on an external professorship position and become research affiliate thus enriching the global network. Furthermore, eight experienced visiting professors are closely associated with the local unit in remote and extended on-site collaboration.

The administration of briq is supported by IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, especially in the fields IT, accounting, human resource management, and event management. Scientific and administrative support is delivered by our research assistants.

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Armin Falk Research 1-1ceo resident

University of Bonn

briq Chief Executive Officer

Armin Falk

armin.falk@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-714
Florian Zimmermann Research 1-3Director resident

University of Bonn

briq Research Director

Florian Zimmermann

florian.zimmermann@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-704
Botond Kőszegi Research 1-3Director resident

University of Bonn

briq Research Director

Botond Kőszegi

botond.koszegi@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-705
Peter Andre Research 2-resident resident

briq Postdoctoral Fellow
Arkadev Ghosh Research 2-resident resident

briq Postdoctoral Fellow
Maximilian Müller Research 2-resident resident

briq Postdoctoral Fellow
Germán Reyes Research 2-resident resident

briq Postdoctoral Fellow
Roland Bénabou Research 3-visiting

Princeton University

briq Visiting Professor
Teodora Boneva Research 4-affiliate

University of Bonn

briq Research Affiliate
Flávio Cunha Research 3-visiting

Rice University

briq Visiting Professor
Joshua Dean Research 4-affiliate

University of Chicago

briq Research Affiliate
Stefano DellaVigna Research 3-visiting

University of California, Berkeley

briq Visiting Professor
Paul Heidhues Research 3-visiting

University of Düsseldorf

briq Visiting Professor
Leander Heldring Research 4-affiliate

Northwestern University

briq Research Affiliate
Simon Jäger Research 4-affiliate

IZA and MIT

briq Research Affiliate
Katja Kaufmann Research 4-affiliate

University of Bayreuth

briq Research Affiliate
Fabian Kosse Research 4-affiliate

University of Munich

briq Research Affiliate
Yucheng Liang Research 4-affiliate

Carnegie Mellon University

briq Research Affiliate
George Loewenstein Research 3-visiting

Carnegie Mellon University

briq Visiting Professor
Matt Lowe Research 4-affiliate

University of British Columbia

briq Research Affiliate
Stephanie Majerowicz Research 4-affiliate

Universidad de los Andes

briq Research Affiliate
Ulrike Malmendier Research 3-visiting

University of California, Berkeley

briq Visiting Professor
Suanna Oh Research 4-affiliate

Paris School of Economics

briq Research Affiliate

Suanna Oh

suanna.oh@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-707
Franz Ostrizek Research 4-affiliate

Sciences Po

briq Research Affiliate

Franz Ostrizek

franz.ostrizek@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-707
Pia Pinger Research 4-affiliate

University of Cologne

briq Research Affiliate
Chris Roth Research 4-affiliate

University of Cologne

briq Research Affiliate
Ran Spiegler Research 3-visiting

Tel Aviv University

briq Visiting Professor
Andreas Stegmann Research 4-affiliate

University of Warwick

briq Research Affiliate
Román Andrés Zárate Research 4-affiliate

University of Toronto

briq Research Affiliate
Martin T. Clemens Administration 1-2cfo

Chief Financial Officer

Martin T. Clemens

martin.clemens@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-600
Markus Antony Administration 4-administration

Head of Scientific Management

Markus Antony

markus.antony@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-702
Stefanie Sauter Administration 4-administration

Senior Organizational Manager

Stefanie Sauter

stefanie.sauter@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-701
Lasse Stötzer Administration 4-administration

Personal Assistant to the CEO

Lasse Stötzer

lasse.stoetzer@briq-institute.org
+49-228-3894-714
Andrea Amelio Support 7-whk

briq Research Assistant
Luca Henkel Support 7-whk

briq Research Assistant
Tim Leffler Support 7-whk

briq Research Assistant
Robin Musolff Support 7-whk

briq Research Assistant
Sjur Nilsen Support 8-shk

briq Student Assistant
Erik Ortiz Covarrubias Support 8-shk

briq Student Assistant
Leonardo Arias Lievano Support 8-shk

briq Student Assistant
Kanita Isaković Support 8-shk

briq Student Assistant
Uranchimeg Zamindii Support 8-shk

briq Student Assistant
Wenjun Zheng Support 8-shk

briq Student Assistant

postdoctoral fellows

The postdoctoral fellow program aims to enable and promote outstanding research. During their gap year our postdoctoral fellows focus on their research agenda before continuing their scientific path at a top university.

" My time as a briq postdoctoral fellow was absolutely transformational. The interaction with my colleagues, the research environment, as well as the support briq offers, resulted in several publications, completed projects, and many new ideas. I leave with a new job, new friends, and a research career that I would not have had without my time at briq.

" My time as a postdoctoral fellow at the briq-institute was invaluable. After the crush of the job market, it was amazing to be able to spend a year making progress on neglected research and discussing ideas with some of the best behavioral researchers from around the globe. I look forward to visiting soon.

" The postdoctoral position at briq was instrumental in my transition from being a Ph.D. student to a tenure track position at the University of Toronto. The postdoc also represented a fantastic first time living in Europe and brought me closer to other approaches to economic research. Despite the disruptions of normalcy due to covid, I had the support to make progress in the coordination and implementation of new projects in the field. I remember my time at briq with fondness, and it is my ambition to continue my interactions with the institute in the future.

" My time at briq was immensely valuable for me in connecting me to a network of the world's leading behavioural economists -- whether those resident at briq (Armin Falk, Florian Zimmermann), those also doing a post-doc (Josh Dean, Chris Roth, Leander Heldring), or those visiting (Stefano DellaVigna, Ulrike Malmendier, Roland Benabou, etc.). The fact that these connections endure beyond briq is what I see as the key benefit of my post-doc -- particularly as I am now the sole economist flying the flag for behavioural economics in my current department!

" My postdoc experience was exceptional in several dimensions, including complete freedom to pursue projects that I was interested in, a family-like environment at briq with very frequent interactions with other researchers, as well as very generous funding of travel and research. I was not only able to visit my co-authors and travel to conferences, but also host my co-authors at briq in Bonn. Our weekly briq researchers lunch was always a highlight as we had a very diverse group of people with quite different but complementary perspectives on research.

" During my time at briq, I was able to strengthen my partnership with the Peruvian government and to develop new and very promising projects with various Ministries, including an experimental evaluation of an anti-bullying program, for which I partnered with Ingo Isphording from IZA and my fellow post-doc Román Zarate. Despite the challenges of the corona virus, I valued the warm and engaging community built at briq, the constant support from the staff and student helpers, and the opportunity to interact with the wider Economics community at Bonn.

visitors

briq offers a unique infrastructure for the networking of researchers and the support of new collaborations. Our visiting program has been launched for this purpose, as it provides a platform for international, top-level researchers. These visitors stay – either on a singular or recurrent basis – at briq to team-up with the local unit, advance their projects, develop fresh ideas, and give special lectures.

" Thank you, thank you, thank you for hosting me in the academic Garden of Eden. Alas, having tasted the fruit of knowledge here, I have to go out into the real world. But fortunately, for the garden of BRIQ, return is possible.

" In some great places — New York or Tokyo for example — an arriving visitor immediately feels that she is in the center of the world, and the many experiences that accumulate after spending time there only strengthen this sensation. In the field of behavioral economics and in the summer, briq is such a place.

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scholarship program

One of the objectives of briq is to promote young talent. To do so, briq finances the scholarships of about 20 doctoral students at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE) and has created the student fellow program. Furthermore, the briq visiting professor and briq visitor programs provide all BGSE students with the opportunity to meet and discuss their research with renowned scholars.

" briq provides me with a unique network of top researchers in my field of research (Behavioral Economics). The numerous discussions with the Visiting Professors and the guests staying at briq helped me a lot during my Ph.D.. Moreover, some of my projects would not have been possible without briq`s scientific infrastructure and expertise as they enabled me to run field experiments and studies with organizations outside academia.

" At the beginning of the Ph.D., getting started with research was the most challenging phase for me. Collecting ideas and working on my first projects was time demanding and the funding of the briq allowed me to fully focus on my projects and the development as a researcher. In the later stages of the Ph.D., I profit from the opportunities the briq creates to meet researchers from the field of applied micro or to attend briq workshops. Building a network and talking to senior researchers of the same field is very valuable for improving one's research and for making academic career choices.

" The exchange of ideas and the opportunity to receive feedback are essential in starting and improving research projects. This process is especially indispensable at an early stage of an academic career. Being myself at this stage, I received thoroughly helpful comments and feedback from the network of renowned international researchers that briq has created. With one of them, Roland Bénabou, I even started to work on joint projects, which is both a pleasant and incredibly enriching experience.

" briq has been the fertile ground for my research, a critical source of support, inspiration, motivation, challenge and opportunity. I found co-authors, colleagues, and friends at the institute and learned a lot from its outstanding guests and visitors.

" As part of my dissertation, I designed an online experiment to investigate whether worry-inducing media reports about COVID-19 harm labor productivity. Due to the unpredictable development of the pandemic, it was crucial for the success of the project to run the experiment without delay. When I struggled to find other timely sources of funding, briq stepped in and financed parts of the experiment.

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