Research Team 2023–2025/26
Last update: September 2026
Researchers
Levin Brinkmann, Mengchen Dong (until 09/2026), Thomas Franz Eisenmann (né Müller, until 09/2026), Neele Engelmann, Nils Köbis (as of 11/2023: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Anne-Marie Nussberger (as of 09/2025: PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH, Berlin, Germany), Iyad Rahwan, Ivan Soraperra
Postdoctoral Fellows
Seyed Ali Alhosseini (as of 04/2026: MDH University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany), Fabian Baumann (as of 10/2024: University of Pennsylvania, USA), Agnieszka Czaplicka (until 05/2023), Prateek Gupta (as of 01/2026: Mistral AI, London, UK), Arian Henning, Inho Hong (as of 03/2023: Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea), Yaomin Jiang, Lara-Christina Kirfel, Patrick Nüß, Vahid Satarifard (as of 02/2023: Yale University, New Haven, USA), Ignacio Serna (as of 02/2026: IE University, Madrid, Spain), Tobias F. Werner (as of 09/2025: University of Southampton, UK), Hiromu Yakura, Qiankun Zhong (until 04/2026)
Predoctoral Fellows
Rodrigo Bermudez Schettino, Clara Bersch (MPSCog, until 09/2024), Luis Celiktemel (né Mienhardt), Alejandro Hernandez Artiles, Jihyeon Hyeong, Yannik Keller, Raluca Rilla (LIFE), Eva-Madeleine Schmidt (MPSCog), Chaewon Yun
Research Engineers
Ali Dasmeh, Bramantyo Ibrahim Supriyatno
Associate Research Scientists
Edmond Awad (University of Exeter and University of Oxford, UK), Inho Hong (Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea), Victor Klockmann (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany), Nils Köbis (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Anne-Marie Nussberger (PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH, Berlin, Germany), Alicia von Schenk (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany), Tobias Werner (University of Southampton, England)
Visiting Researchers
Natalie Abel (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany), Alejandro Hernandes Artiles (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Edmond Awad (University of Exeter, UK), Mar Canet Sola (Tallinn University, Estonia), Huili Chen (University of Toronto, Canada), Sohan Dsouza, Connor Graham (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Bingyi Han (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Yue He (Institute of Psychology (IP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China), Arian Henning (MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany), Germán Oscar Johannsen (MPI for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany), Daniel Juhász Vigild (University of Copenhagen and The ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark), Saeedeh Mohammadi (University College Dublin, Ireland), Sonia Nicoletti (MPI for Software Systems, Saarbrücken, Germany), Robin Schimmelpfennig (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Christian Schmauder (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany), Anna Sophia Tiedeke (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany), Erik Tuchtfeld (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany), Aron Vallinder (Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden), Pierce Veitch (University of Kent, UK), Yangyu Wang (The University of Chicago, USA)
A current list of the Center's staff with links to their web profiles can be found on the Center's website.