معرفی
Federica Farolfi is a Lecturer in Behavioural Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (joined May 2023). She serves as Deputy Director of the Glasgow Experimental Lab (GaEL), established in 2025. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne (2017–2018) and the Centre for Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich (2018–2020). She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Vienna (2011–2017).
Her research focuses on human cooperation, cognitive shortcuts in decision-making under uncertainty, and the interplay between theory of mind, hypermentalizing, and level-k reasoning. She contributes to the fields of Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, and Neuroeconomics. Her work bridges economic theory with empirical insights from neuroscience and psychology.
Key publications include analyses of convention selection in networks, imitation effects in social learning, and neurobiological underpinnings of trust. She is affiliated with the Applied Economics research cluster at the University of Glasgow.
