Armin Falk is a behavioural economist and professor of economics at the University of Bonn. He is also an external scientific member of the Max Planck Society, the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). Falk studied economics as well as philosophy and history at the University of Cologne. In 1998 he completed his doctorate on the topic of Reciprocity and Wage Formation with Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich), where he also habilitated in 2003. From 2003 to 2007 he was programme director at the Institute on the Future of Work (IZA). Since 2003, he has been Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and, since 2016, Director of briq - Institute for Behaviour and Inequality, which he founded. There, Armin Falk researches the fundamentals of human behaviour. He devotes special attention to questions of morality, inequality and decisions under risk. He has also published on questions of climate change and the development of the human personality in high-ranking journals. Armin Falk has already received numerous awards for his work, including the Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation.