Rate My Professor Carsten Murawski

Murawski's primary research and teaching interests lie in decision neuroscience, experimental economics and finance, decision theory, consumer decision-making, computational psychiatry, and cognitive science. His work examines the neurocognitive computations that underpin decision-making in healthy and clinical populations across humans and non-human animals, employing methods such as behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, pharmacological challenges, and neuroimaging. Translational efforts address consumer financial decision-making, the interplay between decision-making and health, and high-performance decision-making. He is co-editor of the book Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (Springer, 2025, with Ulrich Ettinger and Bert Heinrichs). Key publications include “Computational Complexity and Human Decision-Making” in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2017, with Peter Bossaerts), “Not so Smart? ‘Smart’ Drugs Increase the Level but Decrease the Quality of Cognitive Effort” in Science Advances (2023, with Elizabeth Bowman, David Coghill, and Peter Bossaerts), and “Uncertainty and Computational Complexity” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2019, with Peter Bossaerts and Nitin Yadav). His research has appeared in leading journals across biology, cognitive science, finance, neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology, and has been featured in media outlets such as CBS, The Economist, Financial Times, and The Washington Post. Murawski co-initiated Street Finance in 2015, a program integrated into the Bachelor of Commerce that has delivered financial education to over 2,000 Victorian high school students.