Friederike Mengel

Friederike Mengel is a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex and holds a Visiting Professorship at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK). Her research focuses on Behavioural Economics, integrating Game Theory, Evolutionary Dynamics, and Social Network Analysis.

• Key research themes include social influence in networks, opinion dynamics, emergence of social norms, and links between social identity, bounded rationality, and discrimination.
• Recent work explores Covid-19 impacts on productivity and innovation in hybrid work environments.
• Her scientific awards include the Best Paper Award from Quantitative Economics (2018) and recognition as an Academy of Social Sciences Fellow.

Her publications span topics like cooperation in viscous populations, strategic behavior in repeated games, and gender bias in opinion aggregation, with media coverage in outlets like The Economist and Financial Times.