Dr Matteo M Galizzi

Matteo M Galizzi is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science, Director of the LSE Executive MSc in Behavioural Science, and co-Director of the LSE Behavioural Lab, where he leads the research theme on “Applying Behavioural Economics Experiments to the Real World”. He is affiliated to the LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science (PBS), and he is in the Steering Group of the LSE Global Health Initiative. He is in the LSE Executive Master Programme Directors Forum and in the LSE Executive Masters Market Analysis Team.

Matteo serves as the LSE local lead of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) and as chair of the LSE Open Research Working Group (ORWG). He is the co-founder and founding coordinator of the Behavioural and Experimental Economists in the UK network (BEE UK) (with Fabio Tufano); of the Behavioural Experiments in Health Network (BEH-net) and its annual workshop on Behavioural and Experimental Health Economics (with Daniel Wiesen); of the workshop on Behavioural Data Linking and the Data Linking Initiative in Behavioural Science (DLIBS); of the annual conference of the alums of the LSE Executive MSc in Behavioural Science; and of the international workshop on the External Validity, Generalizability, and Replicability of Economic Experiments held annually at the Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum (with Daniel Navarro-Martinez).

Matteo is a behavioural and experimental economist working on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and behavioural experiments in health and public policy. After studying in state schools in Bergamo (Italy), he graduated (cum laude) in economics from the University of Pavia (Italy). He holds a MSc in Econometrics (with Distinction) and a PhD in Economics from the University of York (UK). He has taken research and teaching positions at the universities of Pavia, York, Varese, Autonoma Barcelona, Brescia, Queen Mary London, Durham, and Paris School of Economics.

Matteo’s core methodological expertise is in experimental design, longitudinal experiments and behavioural data linking, ie, the linkage of behavioural economics experiments to panel surveys, administrative records, epidemiological cohorts, biomarkers banks, mobile and wearable devices, online panels, and other smart data sources.

He regularly interacts with international organisations, governments, public agencies, companies, and non-profit organisations for research, knowledge exchange, and advising collaborations. He has supervised the design and implementation of 250+ RCTs and behavioural experiments across the world. Together with the LSE Behavioural Lab team and with collaborators at the University of Trento and the Technical University of Munich, he has led projects on the behavioural aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses within the pan-European PERISCOPE consortium (Pan-European Response to the ImpactS of COVID-19 and future Pandemics and Epidemics) funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. He has also led several major behavioural data linking projects, including an ESRC-funded project linking experimental, survey, administrative and biomarkers data for a representative sample in the UK population within Understanding Society, the world-largest household panel.

Matteo has published 5 policy reports, 10 book chapters, and 60+ scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals in economics, psychology, general science, medicine, public policy, management, and judgment and decision making. He has published a book on Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics: Behavioural Insights from Responses to COVID-19 for Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Joan Costa-Font), the first book to summarise the main insights from behavioural economics on the pandemic responses. He is the editor of the New Voices and the Registered Reports sections of the Behavioural Public Policy journal, an associate editor of the Frontiers in Behavioural Economics journal (Health Behaviours),and a guest editor of the special issue on Transparency, Reproducibility, and Generalizability of Behavioural Economics Experiments in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics (with Levent Neyse).

Awards

LSE Excellence in Education Award for outstanding teaching; ESRC Future Research Leader Fellowship

Expertise

Behavioural economics, Experimental economics, Health economics, Behavioural public policy, Behavioural experiments in health, Behavioural data linking, Open science, Generalisability and reproducibility of economic experiments

At the LSE Matteo teaches Research Methods for Behavioural Science (PB471E), Frontiers in Behavioural Science Methods (PB413E), Dissertation Workshops (PB451E) for the EMSc dissertations, and Behavioural Science for Health and Regulation (PB452E) at the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science; and Experimental Design and Methods for the Behavioural Science (PB413) and Behavioural Science for Health and Pandemic Responses (PB452) at the MSc in Behavioural Science, all courses for which he has received several teaching excellence awards over the years.

Besides supervising dissertations for the Executive and full-time MSc in Behavioural Science, he is regularly supervising or co-supervising post-doctoral researchers and PhD candidates at the LSE, including:

• Dr Ploutarchos Kourtidis (post-doctoral researcher at PBS and LSE Behavioural Lab, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) working on the Pan-European PERISCOPE Projects on the Behavioural Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response - now Lab Manager of the LSE Behavioural Lab.
• Dr Dina Rabie (post-doctoral researcher at Department of Management and LSE Behavioural Lab, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) working on how differences in cultures and institutions may influence individual behaviour – now Visiting Fellow at the LSE Department of Social Policy and Affiliate at the LSE Behavioural Lab.
• Dr Philipp Schoenegger (post-doctoral researcher at Department of Management and LSE Behavioural Lab, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) working on issues related to forecasting, the psychology of existential risk, artificial intelligence, and metascience – now working at Microsoft AI Futures
• Dr Sanchayan Banerjee (PhD graduate at the LSE Department of Geography and Environment, co-supervised with Professors Susana Mourato and Peter John) with a thesis on Theory and Experimental Evidence of Nudge Plus Behavioural Interventions - Associate Professor in Economics and Public Policy at the Policy Institute in King’s College London and Visiting Fellow at PBS.
• Julia Buzan (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington) with a defended thesis on Focusing on Today While Financial Pressed: a Socioecological Account of Present Orientation in Contexts of Poverty – now Postdoctoral Researcher at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
• Hannah Chappell (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Christian Krekel) working on Long Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescent Health Behaviour.
• Adam Davidson (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Dario Krpan) working on Mechanisms Driving Experiences of Fun.
• Virginia Fedrigo (PhD graduate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Barbara Fasolo) with a PhD thesis on Temporal Fluctuations in Personality and Cognitive Traits – former Lab Manager of the LSE Behavioural Lab, now working at JPMorganChase.
• Dr Benno Guenther (PhD graduate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Jet Sanders) with a thesis on Risk-Taking in High Stakes Contexts – founder and CEO of Blue Guardian, visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town, Visiting Fellow at PBS.
• Juliet Hodges (PhD graduate at PBS) with a PhD thesis on The Role of Behavioural Economics in Medical Decision-Making for Patients and Providers – now working as freelance behavioural and data strategist.
• Andriy Ivchenko (PhD candidate at the LSE Department of Social Policy, co-supervised with Dr Adam Oliver) with a defended thesis on Antecedents and Moderators of Online Privacy Disclosure Behaviour – founder of Expilab.
• Veronika Luptakova (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Professor Alex Voorhoeve) working on Inconsistency in Moral Judgements – Graduate Teaching Assistant on the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science.
• Daniele Pollicino (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Ganga Shreedhar) working on Nudging Sustainable Food Consumption
• Anisha Singh (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Laura M Giurge) working on Designing around Gendered Decisions to Delegate Tasks.
• Audrey Van Hoecke (PhD candidate at PBS, co-supervised with Dr Jet Sanders) working on Temporal Fluctuations in Moral Behaviours.