Friederike Mengel

Friederike Mengel is a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex (UK) and Rotating Chair in Behavioural Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL). She received her PhD from the University of Alicante in Spain and has held positions at Maastricht University and the University of Nottingham. Friederike is a Behavioural Economist working on Evolutionary Game Theory and the study of social networks. Her research investigates opinion dynamics in networks, how people form and revise beliefs about themselves and the world, how information diffuses in networks to generate innovation and how social norms and social influence emerge. She is currently a co-editor at Experimental Economics and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2019 she received the Philipp Leverhulme Prize in Economics.