Eugene Malthouse
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Dr. Eugene Malthouse is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx) at the University of Nottingham, working with Professor Simon Gächter on the European Research Council project PRINCIPLES, which seeks to develop a unified science of human cooperation. In 2022, he founded the Collective Decision-Making and Culture Lab (CDMCL), an interdisciplinary network of 71 researchers from 38 countries, focusing on global collective action problems such as climate change and pandemics. Dr. Malthouse’s research combines psychology, economics, and philosophy, using experiments to explore factors influencing individual and group decision-making in collective action scenarios. He also studies early life experiences, trust, and social capital across cultures. A Research Fellow at CogCo, he collaborates with companies to apply behavioral science insights to large-scale societal challenges. Dr. Malthouse holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. from the University of Warwick and a B.A. from the University of Bristol.
