My research

I'm interested in mathematical models of cooperation and conflict in biology and the evolutionary human sciences. My research focuses on different aspects of social evolution, collective action problems, and their mathematical modeling using evolutionary game theory and related approaches at the intersection between economics and theoretical biology.

IAS fellowship

Humans cooperate to contribute to common projects, create public goods, and engage in political participation. Among the mechanisms to explain the evolution of human cooperation, indirect reciprocity is the idea that cooperation can help individuals accrue a good reputation in the eyes of interested third parties who could then behave nicely towards them. At IAS, I plan to work on two related projects on indirect reciprocity. First, I will study the robustness of indirect reciprocity when moving from the simple donation games traditionally used in previous work to more general prisoner's dilemmas, thus allowing for strategic complementarity and substitutability (i.e., interdependence). Second, I plan to study which assessment rules people use when forming and updating others' reputations in the context of interdependent decision-making.