Behavioral Decision Analysis

Florian Federspiel is an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences and Head of the Quantitative Methods and Analytics area at INCAE Business School (Costa Rica). Prior to joining INCAE he was a Visiting Scholar in the Operations and Information Management Group of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in the USA and Adjunct Professor in the area of Operations and Technology at IE Business School (Spain). His research focuses on behavioral decision analysis, particularly regarding the issues of risk perception and risk preferences.

Gilberto Montibeller is a Full Professor of Operations Management at the University of Bristol Business School (UK). He is an Associate Editor ofthe INFORMS Decision Analysis Journal and an Area Editor of the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. He has published widely in decision sciences; the quality of his research has been recognized by best publication awards by the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society, the Society for Risk Analysis, and the International Society on Multi-Criteria Decision Making. His research is focused on behavioral issues in risk and decision analysis and on the applications of these methods for health security and health operations. The scientific rigour and impact of his applied research projects have been recognised by the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Practice and the EURO Excellence in Practice Awards.

Matthias Seifert is an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences in the Operations and Technology area at IE University (Spain). Prior to joining IE, he was affiliatedwith the London Business School, Cambridge University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Seifert’s research focuses on decision making under risk and uncertainty and managerial forecasting. His work has been published in top academic journals including Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Operations Management, Nature Human Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (and others) as well as in practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Dr. Seifert is an Associate Editor at the International Journal of Forecasting and serves on the editorial board of outlets including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Decision Analysis. His research has been featured by public media including Forbes India, Ideas for Leaders, CBS News, the Financial Times International (“Professor of the Week”), Psychology Today and others. In 2016, he has been named as one of “The Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors” by Poets & Quants.