Fabio Tufano is a Professor of Applied Microeconomics and Founding Director of the Choice Research Centre at the University of Leicester School of Business. He is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Fabio is the founding Coordinator of BEE-UK, the network of Behavioural and Experimental Economists based in the UK. Before joining the University of Leicester, Fabio was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Nottingham School of Economics and Deputy Director of the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx).

As an applied micro-economist, Fabio uses a combination of theoretical and multi-disciplinary insights as well as experimental and observational data to study human behaviour and decision-making. The areas of concentration of his research are: equity, diversity and inclusion; social identity, cohesion and economic behaviour; creativity, the science of doing science, and reproducibility; robustness of individual preferences; and the “mechanics” of human cooperation. Fabio has published a range of papers including articles that appeared (or are forthcoming) in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, Experimental Economics, Judgement and Decision Making, Journal of Economic Psychology, Management Science, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.