Professor Friederike Mengel

University of Essex, University of Essex

Friederike is a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex and a Visiting Guest Professor at the University of Heidelberg.  She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK).  Much of her research is on (Evolutionary) Game Theory and Learning with a particular interest in learning across games and categorization as well as models of (bounded) rationality more generally. Another focus of her research is the study of behaviour in social networks and the emergence of social norms. She also works on social identity, the formation of preferences and discrimination. She received an ERC Starting grant in 2018 for her work on Opinion Dynamics.