Axel Ockenfels

Axel Ockenfels is Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne, and Director of the Cologne Laboratory of Economic Research, and he coordinates the Excellence Center for Social and Economic Behavior and the Research Area “Market Design & Behavior” in the Excellence Cluster ECONtribute. His research focuses on “behavioral economic engineering”, and has many useful applications in the Internet, electricity, climate, telecommunication, finance, transport and other sectors, as well as for the management of firms. It has benefitted from collaborations with governments, market platforms, companies and research institutions mostly across Europe and the US. Ockenfels is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and of the National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech. He is also member of the Economists' Roundtable and of the Climate Economists' Roundtable at the Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt), and of the Academic Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation, the Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association, and the Exeter Prize.