Carlos Alos Ferrer

Professor Carlos Alos Ferrer is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Lancaster University, affiliated with The Management School. His research focuses on understanding economic decisions through the lens of decision neuroscience, behavioral experiments, and mathematical modeling, particularly in areas like bounded rationality, game theory, and preference formation. He actively participates in academic activities such as keynote speaking at conferences like the Newcastle Experimental Economics Workshop and the IAREP Conference 2024, and organizes workshops like the Lancaster Psychoeconomics Workshop. He holds editorial roles in journals such as Economic Theory and Frontiers in Neuroscience. His research explores topics including stochastic choice, cognitive biases, and the interplay between attention and decision-making.

Prof. Ferrer supervises one postgraduate research student and has published over 100 works. His recent contributions include studies on response time analysis for preference elicitation, cognitive roots of economic errors, and methods for measuring human feelings like pain. He frequently engages with academic communities, presenting at international events and contributing to policy-relevant research such as vaccine allocation ethics and toxoplasmosis economic impacts.