Robin Schimmelpfennig

Robin Schimmelpfennig is a PhD Candidate at the University of Lausanne and an affiliated researcher at the London School of Economics. Prior to his PhD, Robin did his MSc at LSE and worked at Fehr Advice, the Behavioral Economics Consultancy Group in Zurich. In his professional career, he has lived and worked in Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Jordan, Uganda, the UK, and Switzerland. Currently living in Lausanne, he enjoys spending time climbing mountains both by ski or feet, and would trade anything for a good Cheese Fondue with Fendant (the local white wine). 

Robin is interested in better understanding human behavior and psychology in relation to public policy, collective processes, and change for good. His research focuses on how cultural evolution, the changes in socially transmitted beliefs, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and languages shape our behavior and societies at large. He draws on methods ranging from experiments, computational modeling, and qualitative approaches to understand how behavioral science can help solve the world's Grand Challenges.

Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2023). Cultural Evolutionary Behavioural Science and Public Policy. Behavioural Public Policy.

Schimmelpfennig, R., Razek, L., Schnell, E., & Muthukrishna, M. (2022). Paradox of diversity in the collective brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1843), 20200316.

Schimmelpfennig, R., Vogt, S., Ehret, S., & Efferson, C. (2021). Promotion of behavioural change for health in a heterogeneous population. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 99(11), 819–827. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.285227