Carsten Murawski, Director, Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets

Carsten Murawski is a decision scientist, Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Melbourne, and Director of the Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets (CBMM), an interdisciplinary research centre focused on human and machine decision-making. He is Graduate Research Director of the doctoral program Decision, Risk and Financial Sciences and the academic lead of the joint PhD program between the University of Bonn and the University of Melbourne.

His primary research and teaching areas are decision theory, experimental economics, decision neuroscience, consumer decision-making, computational psychiatry and cognitive science. Most of his current research investigates the neurocognitive computations underlying decision-making and how computational resource constraints affect decision-making in healthy and clinical populations. He uses a variety of methods including behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, pharmacological interventions, and neuroimaging in both human and non-human animals. His translational research spans consumer decision-making, decision-making and health, and high-performance decision-making.

He is a co-editor, with Ulrich Ettinger and Bert Heinrichs, of the book Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (Springer, 2025). His research has been published in leading journals in biology, cognitive science, finance, neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology and been covered by leading media outlets including CBS, The Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, National Geographic, NBC, New Scientist and The Washington Post.

Before joining the University of Melbourne, Carsten was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich. He has been a visiting researcher at New York University and Columbia University. His teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Melbourne, the University of Zurich, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. In addition to his academic career, he has several years of experience in the finance industry.

Carsten holds a PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a Master’s degree from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.