• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1996• Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, 1996• University of Chicago, 1996• University of Wiscons<strong>in</strong> at Madison, 1996• University of Bonn, 1996• Harvard University, 1995• University of Arizona at Tucson, 1995• University of Pittsburgh, 1995• Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton University, 1995• University of California at Berkeley, 1993• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1993• University of Arizona at Tucson, 1993• New York University, 1993• University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993• Virg<strong>in</strong>ia Polytechnic Institute, 1993Membership <strong>in</strong> Scientific OrganizationsAmerican Economic AssociationEuropean Economic AssociationAustrian Economic AssociationSwiss Society for Economics and StatisticsRoyal Economic SocietyVere<strong>in</strong> für SocialpolitikCEPR Fellow (s<strong>in</strong>ce 1999)Fellow of the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) <strong>in</strong> Munich, GermanyFellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor <strong>in</strong> Bonn, Germany (IZA)30
Research Grants• The Social Dynamics of Normative Behavior: Population Fragmentation and Divergent CulturalEvolution, 2010 – 2013, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss National Science Foundation, grant sum CHF366’700.00. (Co-pr<strong>in</strong>cipal <strong>in</strong>vestigator with Dr. Charles Efferson)• Individual heterogeneity and social <strong>in</strong>teraction, 2009 – 2012, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss NationalScience Foundation, grant sum CHF 469'535.00.• SystemsX, Neural Correlates of collective decision mak<strong>in</strong>g: from molecules to m<strong>in</strong>ds, 2008 –2012, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Zurich, grantsum CHF 764'000.00.• Expla<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Religion, 2007 – 2010, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the European Community, grant sumGBP 217'992.00.• The Foundations of Human Prosociality – Social Preferences <strong>in</strong> Marmosets, Chimpanzees andChildren, 2006-2009, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss National Science Foundation, grant sumCHF 547'543.00.• NCCR Affective Sciences, 2005-2009, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss National Science Foundation, grantsum CHF 864'758.00• The Impact of Loss Aversion and Social Preferences on Economic Incentives, 2004-2006, f<strong>in</strong>ancedby the Swiss National Science Foundation, grant sum CHF 385'458.00.• European Wages and Employment under Low Inflation: A Consortium Research Proposal,2004-2006, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss National Science Foundation, grant sum CHF 21'000.00.• European Network for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, 2004-2007, f<strong>in</strong>anced by theEuropean Union, grant sum CHF 450'000.00.• European Network for the Development of Experimental Economics, 1998-2001, f<strong>in</strong>anced bythe European Union.• Causes and Consequences of Nom<strong>in</strong>al Inertia, 1998 - 2001, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss NationalScience Foundation.• Network on Economic Environments and the Evolution of Individual Preferences and SocialNorms, 1995 – 2005, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago.• Social Norms and Wage Formation, 1995-1998, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the Swiss National Science Foundation.• Involuntary Unemployment as an Equilibrium Phenomenon, 1993 - 1996, f<strong>in</strong>anced by the AustrianScience Foundation.31