Matteo M Galizzi is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science, Director of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Executive MSc in Behavioural Science, and Co-Director of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab. He is affiliated to the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (PBS), is in the Steering Group of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Global Health Initiative, and in the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Executive MSc Management Board.
Matteo serves as the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ of the UK Reproducibility Network () and as co-chair of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Open Research Working Group (ORWG). He is the co-founder and coordinator of the Behavioural and Experimental Economists in the UK network (); of the Behavioural Experiments in Health Network () and its annual on Behavioural and Experimental Health Economics; of the workshop on Behavioural Data Linking and the Data Linking Initiative in Behavioural Science (DLIBS); of the annual conference of the alums of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Executive MSc in Behavioural Science; and of the international workshop on the External Validity, Generalizability, and Replicability of Economic Experiments held annually at the Barcelona School of Economics .
Matteo is a behavioural and experimental economist working on randomised controlled trials and behavioural experiments in health and public policy. After studying in state schools in Bergamo (Italy), he graduated (cum laude) in economics from the University of Pavia (Italy). He holds a MSc in Econometrics (with Distinction) and a PhD in Economics from the University of York (UK). He has taken research and teaching positions at the universities of Pavia, York, Varese, Autonoma Barcelona, Brescia, Queen Mary London, Durham, and Paris School of Economics.
Matteo’s core methodological expertise is in longitudinal experiments and behavioural data linking, i.e. the linkage of behavioural economics experiments to panel surveys, administrative records, epidemiological cohorts, biomarkers banks, mobile and wearable devices, online panels, and other smart data sources.
He regularly interacts with international organisations, governments, public agencies, companies, and non-profit organization for research, knowledge exchange, and advising collaborations. Together with the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab team and with collaborators at the University of Trento and the Technical University of Munich, he has led projects on the behavioural aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses within the pan-European consortium (Pan-European Response to the ImpactS of COVID-19 and future Pandemics and Epidemics) funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. He has also led several major behavioural data linking projects, including an ESRC-funded project linking experimental, survey, administrative and biomarkers data for a representative sample in the UK population within Understanding Society, the world-largest household panel.
Matteo has published 5 policy reports, 10 book chapters, and 50+ scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals in economics, psychology, general science, medicine, public policy, management, and judgment and decision making. He has published a on Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics: Behavioural Insights from Responses to COVID-19 for Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Joan Costa-Font), the first book to summarise the main insights from behavioural economics on the pandemic responses. He is the editor of the New Voices and the Registered Reports sections of the Behavioural Public Policy , and a guest editor of the on Transparency, Reproducibility, and Generalizability of Behavioural Economics Experiments in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics.
At the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Matteo teaches Research Methods for Behavioural Science (PB471E), Frontiers in Behavioural Science Methods (PB413E), Dissertation Workshops (PB451E) for the EMSc dissertations, and Behavioural Science for Health and Regulation (PB452E) at the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science; and Experimental Design and Methods for the Behavioural Science (PB413) and Behavioural Science for Health and Pandemic Responses (PB452) at the MSc in Behavioural Science, all courses for which he has received several teaching excellence awards over the years.
Besides supervising dissertations for the Executive and full-time MSc in Behavioural Science, he is regularly supervising or co-supervising post-doctoral researchers and PhD candidates at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, including:
- Dr Ploutarchos Kourtidis (post-doctoral researcher at PBS and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) working on the Pan-European Projects on the Behavioural Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response - on leave.
- Dr Dina Rabie (post-doctoral researcher at Department of Management and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) working on how differences in cultures and institutions may influence individual behaviour – lab manager at of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab.
- Dr Philipp Schoenegger (post-doctoral researcher at Department of Management and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) working on issues related to forecasting, the psychology of existential risk, artificial intelligence, and metascience.
- Dr Sanchayan Banerjee (PhD graduate at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Geography and Environment, co-supervised with Professors Susana Mourato and Peter John) working on Theory and Experimental Evidence of Nudge Plus Behavioural Interventions - Assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam and Visiting Fellow at PBS.
- Julia Buzan (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington) working on Decision-Making in Socioecologies of Adversity.
- Adam Davidson (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Dario Krpan) working on Mechanisms Driving Experiences of Fun.
- Virginia Fedrigo (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) working on Temporal Fluctuations in Personality and Cognitive Traits – former lab manager of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Behavioural Lab.
- Philipp Friemann (PhD candidate at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Health Policy, co-supervised with Professor Martin Knapp) working on Development and Evaluation of a Digital Peer Support Intervention for Unpaid Carers.
- Dr Benno Guenther (PhD graduate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Jet Sanders) working on Risk-Taking in High Stakes Contexts – founder and CEO of Blue Guardian, visiting lecturer at University of Cape Town, incoming Visiting Fellow at PBS.
- Juliet Hodges (PhD candidate at PBS) working on Doctors-Patients Shared Decision-Making.
- Andriy Ivchenko (PhD candidate at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Social Policy, co-supervised with Dr Adam Oliver) working on Antecedents and Moderators of Online Privacy Disclosure Behaviour.
- Veronika Luptakova (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Professor Alex Voorhoeve) working on Inconsistency in Moral Judgements – Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science.
- Daniele Pollicino (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Ganga Shreedhar) working on Nudging Sustainable Food Consumption
- Anisha Singh (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Laura M Giurge) working on Designing around Gendered Decisions to Delegate Tasks.
- Audrey Van Hoecke (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Jet Sanders) working on Temporal Fluctuations in Moral Behaviours.