Peter Bossaerts is Leverhulme International Professor of Neuroeconomics in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge. He pioneered the use of controlled experimentation (with human participants) in the study of financial markets. He also pioneered the use of decision and game theory in cognitive neuroscience, thereby helping establish the novel fields of neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience and computational neuropsychiatry. Recently, he has started to use computer science to study human and market behavior when uncertainty emerges because of computational (combinatorial) complexity.
Bossaerts graduated with a PhD from UCLA and spent most of his career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He was also Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, and has held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and the University of Utah, among others.
Bossaerts has published in many of the major journals in finance, economics, econometrics, neuroscience and general science. Bossaerts is elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for The Advancement of Economic Theory, and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
