Sebastian Goerg

Prof. Goerg (1980) conducts research in the areas of behavioral and experimental economics. He examines the effects of incentives, information and (legal) institutions on human behavior. Together with co-authors from the social and natural sciences, he is pursuing an interdisciplinary research agenda.

Prof. Goerg studied economics at the University of Bonn and then did his doctorate there with Nobel Prize winner Prof. Reinhard Selten. From 2009 to 2012 he did research at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. After stays at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Michigan, he became an assistant professor at Florida State University in 2012. There he received tenure in 2018. In 2018, Prof. Goerg was appointed Associate Professor to the Chair of Economics at TUMCS for Biotechnology and Sustainability. He is also a research fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics and a research affiliate at the MPI for the study of collective goods.