Bjoern Hartig

Bjoern Hartig is an Experimental Laboratory Officer and manager of the ExpReSS Lab at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, particularly social preferences, bounded rationality, and neuro-economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne (2013) and has taught courses in decision theory, economic philosophy, and experimental economics across multiple institutions.

• Employment: Experimental Laboratory Officer at Royal Holloway since 2011
• Educational Background: PhD in Economics (2013), University of Cologne; Diploma in Economics (2008), University of Bonn

His research interests include conditional cooperation, principal-agent theory, and cognitive biases. He has collaborated on studies exploring delusion proneness in clinical psychology and risk aversion in multi-agent systems. His work frequently employs experimental methodologies, including zTree programming for lab experiments.

Hartig has received awards such as the College Excellence Teaching Commendation (2014) and the Heinz Sauermann-Grant (2010). His lab develops tools like Heatmap Payoff Calculator and the Columbia Card Task for experimental research.