“Both NIM and TUM will benefit from this collaboration,” says Prof. Goerg. “Joint doctoral projects, research initiatives, and conferences are planned. Students will also benefit, as we intend to integrate NIM into teaching at TUMCS, for example through theses and project-based courses.”
For more than 20 years, Sebastian J. Goerg has been researching how individuals make decisions, with a particular focus on the psychological and economic drivers of motivation, norm compliance, behavioral change, and consumer behavior. His work examines how incentives, beliefs, and social norms shape individual decision-making—from everyday consumption choices to cooperative behavior within organizations and society. His empirical research follows a multi-method approach, combining laboratory, field, and online experiments with survey studies and econometric analyses.
Sebastian J. Goerg earned his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Bonn in 2010 under the supervision of Nobel laureate Reinhard Selten. His research and academic achievements have been recognized with several awards, including the Heinz Sauermann Prize for the best dissertation in experimental economics, the TUMCS Teaching Excellence Award, and the Supervisory Award of the TUMCS Graduate Center. His academic career has taken him to institutions on three continents, including visiting positions at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2007–2008) and the University of Michigan (2011–2012), a role as Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (2009–2012), and a tenure-track professorship at Florida State University (2012–2018), before joining TUM in 2018.