Academic staff within the School of Economics Head of SchoolNameRoleResearch InterestsEmailProfessor Miguel Costa-GomesProfessor and Head of SchoolGame theory as part of empirical economics, behavioural economics, experimental economics, experimental finance, bounded rationality, cognitive economics and negotiationmiguel.costa-gomes@ed.ac.uk StaffEarly Career Researchers and Stipendiary Fellows are not available for PhD SupervisionNameRoleResearch InterestsEmailDr Alonso AhumadaPostdoctoral Research FellowApplied Theory, Organizational Economics, Economic History, Development EconomicsAlonso.Ahumada@ed.ac.ukDr Ahmed AnwarLecturerGame Theory, Auction TheoryAhmed.Anwar@ed.ac.ukDr Athanasia (Nancy) ArnokourouLecturerExperimental Economics, Behavioural EconomicsA.Arnokourou@ed.ac.ukProfessor Jesper BaggerProfessorFirm Recruitment, Income Taxation and Labour Allocation, Marriage Market SortingJesper.Bagger@ed.ac.ukDr Darija Barak-Halatova Post-Doctoral Researcher in Experimental and Behavioural EconomicsExperimental Economics, Behavioural Economicsdbarakh@ed.ac.ukDr Diego BattistonSenior LecturerLabour Economics, Organisational Economics, Development Economics, Economic History, Data Science and Machine Learning ApplicationsDiego.Battiston@ed.ac.ukDr Stuart BreslinLecturerForm-Worker Sorting and Matching, Wage Contracts, Training and Human Capitalsbresli2@exseed.ad.ac.ukDr Sean BrocklebankSenior LecturerBehavioural Economics, Development Economics, Econometrics, MacroeconomicsSean.Brocklebank@ed.ac.ukDr Luis E. 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