Marlene Batzke is a visiting researcher at LABSS-CNR. Marlene Batzke is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Kassel (Germany). She is a member of the research group Environmental Systems Analysis and Environmental Psychology, where she completed her PhD in Psychology in 2023.
She is interested in norm internalization and change, belief change, cooperation and pro-environmental behavior, and decision-making in conflict situations. In her research she combines theory building, online, lab, and field experiments, and agent-based simulations.
Diego Santamaría is a visiting researcher at LABSS-CNR. He is PhD candidate in Economics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and works at Institute of Public Goods and Policies from Spanish National Council for Research (IPP-CSIC), granted by a FPU fellowship by the Spanish Ministry for Universities. He is economist with MSc degree at Internacional Economics.
His research combines both experimental and observational methodologies to investigate social preferences as drivers of policies. Inequality acceptability, expectations about others’ behaviour, mental health or affective polarisation are some topics included in his research agenda.
Matteo Michelini is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy both at the Technical University of Eindhoven and at the Rurh University of Bochum (Joint PhD). He is affiliated with the DFG Network on Simulations for Scientific Inquiry ( DFG ), and with the Research Group on Sceintific Reasoning at Bochum University ( Bochum University). He did his master in Logic and his bachelor in Philosophy
He did a Master’s in Philosophy at the University of Turin, working in philosophy of science. Meanwhile, he also completed the Allievi Social and Political Science program at Collegio Carlo Alberto (Master’s degree equivalent). He will begin his PhD in Philosophy of social science at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2023. His research revolves around philosophy and sociology of Open Science and social norms. He is mainly concerned with trust, signaling, and cooperation.
Rainer Hegselmann, born 1950, studied philosophy, sociology, and political sciences at Ruhr–Universität Bochum. He took his PhD from Essen University with the thesis „Normativity and Rationality – The Problem of Practical Reason in the Analytical Philosophy“. 1983 he got his ‚habilitation‘ at Karlsruhe University with his second book „Formal Dialectics – A Contribution to a Theory of Rational Argumentation“. He received a venia legendi for the whole discipline philosophy.
Ozan Aksoy is Senior Teaching Fellow in Quantitative Social Sciences at the University College London.
Ozan’s two research focuses are cooperative behaviour in modern societies and the political sociology of religion. He uses formal-mathematical modeling (such as decision theory and game theory) and is specialized in experimental and statistical methods.
Pontus Strimling is a methodologically broad researcher of social science who works at the Institute for Futures studies. At the institute he studies why it is that social norms change, in what direction they change and how that process can be directed. Special attention is directed to how norms surrounding punishment look and on which behavioral tendencies there is that can create and spread norms. He is also an active part of the work on norms of equality that is part of the institutes’ research program. His previous work investigates how cultural traits spread among humans as well as other species. In his work he uses mathematical models, experiment and cross-cultural surveys.
Edmund Chattoe-Brown is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is a Member of Leicester Judgment and Decision Making Research Group and he is Editorial Board member for the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (1998-present).