Welcome
My name is Astrid Hopfensitz and I am a professor at the EMLyon business school in France and member of the GATE lab.
Before coming to Lyon I was working at the Toulouse School of Economics and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). In 2017 I was elected member of the Institute Universitaire de France (IUF).
My main research interest concerns the influence of emotions and psychological dimensions on economic decision making and behavior. I use economic experiments in combination with psychological methods. In recent years I have been interested in topics related to social ties and social intelligence. For example I have studied situations where players have to decide whether to trust another person (for a video introduction see here) and decisions taken by families especially spouses (for a video see here).
I studied applied mathematics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) at the University of Ulm, Germany and economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I did my PhD in experimental economics at CREED, the experimental economics lab at the University of Amsterdam. After my PhD I did my Postdoc at the interdisciplinary center on affective sciences (CISA) in Geneva.
When I am not working, traveling or playing with my children Lucie and Emil I enjoy reading, drawing, painting and making mosaics out of plates and cups I buy on the flea-market. I also took up sewing when my kids where small which resulted in a collection of soft cuddly toys. Since the 2020 pandemic I started to do pottery. To have a look at some of them see here.
To learn more, follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/hopfensitz
Before coming to Lyon I was working at the Toulouse School of Economics and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). In 2017 I was elected member of the Institute Universitaire de France (IUF).
My main research interest concerns the influence of emotions and psychological dimensions on economic decision making and behavior. I use economic experiments in combination with psychological methods. In recent years I have been interested in topics related to social ties and social intelligence. For example I have studied situations where players have to decide whether to trust another person (for a video introduction see here) and decisions taken by families especially spouses (for a video see here).
I studied applied mathematics (Wirtschaftsmathematik) at the University of Ulm, Germany and economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I did my PhD in experimental economics at CREED, the experimental economics lab at the University of Amsterdam. After my PhD I did my Postdoc at the interdisciplinary center on affective sciences (CISA) in Geneva.
When I am not working, traveling or playing with my children Lucie and Emil I enjoy reading, drawing, painting and making mosaics out of plates and cups I buy on the flea-market. I also took up sewing when my kids where small which resulted in a collection of soft cuddly toys. Since the 2020 pandemic I started to do pottery. To have a look at some of them see here.
To learn more, follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/hopfensitz
