Philipp Otto

EDUCATION

2007 − 2017 EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA
Habilitation, Economics (VWL), 5th December 2017 (entitled “Social Preferences”). Microeconomics especially Economic Theory. Fully funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

2004 − 2007 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
PhD, Psychology, 31st August 2007 (entitled “Cognitive Finance”). Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE). Fully funded by a personal ESRC Studentship Award.

2002 − 2004 UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
MS, Psychology, 29th July 2004. Institute for Applied Cognitive Sciences. Part-time study supported by Decision Technology.
1997 − 2001 FREE UNIVERSITY BERLIN
MA (Diplom), Psychology, 8th October 2001. Concentration in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Degree is awarded upon completion of thesis and oral exams in seven areas. Self-financed entire university education.

 

EXPERIENCE

Since 2020 BRANDENBURG MEDICAL SCHOOL, Neuruppin, Germany
Guest Professor for Research Methods
- Module responsibilities statistics and economic psychology
- Teaching and supervising bachelor and master theses
- Administration and research development

Since 2007 EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Researcher and Lecturer
- DFG project manager
- ViaLab management and organization
- Teaching, supervising and administrative support

2009 − 2010 BURGUNDY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, ESC Dijon, France
Researcher and Lecturer
- LESSAC experimental research and analysis
- Research collaborations on consumer behavior and microfinance
- Lecturing classes in organizational management and data analysis

2002 − 2007 DECISION TECHNOLOGY, London, England
Research Analyst Consultant
- Customer information warehouse analysis
- Customer perception and customer behavior evaluation
- Product development

1999 − 2002 MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT,
(Department: Adaptive Behavior and Cognition), Berlin, Germany
Research Assistant
- Research as a member of the ABC Research Group
- Planning, carrying-out and analysis of experiments

1998 − 1999 INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM TRANSFER, Potsdam, Germany
Human Resources Consultant
- Analysis, evaluation and process reorganizations
- Acquisitions, personal training and knowledge system implementations

TEACHING
- Behavioral Game Theory, graduate level & doctoral level, 2017
- Behavioral Finance, graduate level, 2016, 2018, 2019
- Primer in Game Theory, doctoral level, 2015
- Experimente zur Umweltökonomie, bachelor level, 2012
- Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, doctoral level, 2011
- Organizational Behavior and Decision Making, graduate level, 2011
- Organization Management, bachelor level, 2010
- Experimental Economics, bachelor level, 2009
- Quantitative Methods, graduate level, 2009
- Statistics and Data Processing, bachelor level, 2009, 2019
- Behavioral Economics, graduate level, 2008, 2011, 2012

MEMBERSHIPS OF ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Berlin Behavioral Economics Group (BBE)
- Economic Science Association (ESA)
- Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GfeW)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGP)
- Royal Economic Society (RES)
- Southern Economic Association (SEA)
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
- American Economic Association (AEA)

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SHORT INFO
Dr. Philipp E. Otto is working in Behavioral and Experimental Economics. In 2007 he received his PhD from the University College London (UCL) and in 2017 his Habilitation from the European University Viadrina. He worked at the Max-Planck Institute for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition in Berlin on experiments on adaptive strategy selection and supported the LESSAC research team at ESC Dijon on experiments in consumer behavior as well as giving classes in statistics and organization management. Currently he is working for a DFG (German Science Foundation) project on threshold public goods at the Microeconomics Department of the Viadrina University and is teaching at the Brandenburg Medical School. Research interests include, among others, matching markets and price bargaining, social motives and learning, cognitive heuristics and strategy selection. Publications of his appeared in international journals such as the Journal of Socio-Economics, Journal of Experimental Economics, Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, European Accounting Review, Review of Economic Design, Economica, International Journal of Game Theory, Revstat, and Kyklos (with an h-index of eleven and in total more than 1,000 citation counts on Google Scholar).