Bettina Rockenbach#
| Membership Number: | 7284 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.leopoldina.org/en/about-us/about-the-leopoldina/presidium-and-boards/presidium/president-rockenbach/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2624-1964 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2025 President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2019 - 2025 Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
- 2018 - 205 Director of the Reinhard Selten Institute, Universities of Bonn and Cologne
- Since 2011 Full Professor of Experimental and Behavioral Economics at the University of Cologne (on leave)
- 2000 - 2011 Full Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Erfurt
- 1994 - 1999 Research Assistant with Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten, University of Bonn, Nobel Prize Winner
- 1994 - 1995 Management Consultant, Munich (one-year leave)
- 1988 - 1993 Research Assistant with Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten, University of Bonn; Managing Director of the Bonn Laboratory for Experimental Economics
- Abroad:
- 2012 Visiting Professor at UC San Diego, USA
- 1999 - 2000 Visiting Professor at the CentER for Economic Research at the University of Tilburg, NL
- 1992 & 1993 Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Behavioral economics
- Design of mechanisms to promote cooperation in social dilemma situations
- Experimental economics
- Game theory
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Appointment to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1999 Hendrik-Casimir-Karl-Ziegler-Award of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Königliche Niederländischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 1995 Heinz-Sauermann-Award for the best dissertation of the years 1993/1994 by the Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GEW)
