Falk Lieder
Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles
Falk Lieder is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Research in his Rational Altruism Lab aims to produce fundamental insights into crucial aspects of rationality, altruism, and morality that can be applied to improve society and the future of humanity. He completed his Ph.D. in Tom Griffiths’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab at UC Berkeley in May 2018. His dissertation was awarded the Glushko Dissertation Prize in Cognitive Science. He then became a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he led the Rationality Enhancement Group until June 2023. He moved to the psychology department of UCLA in July 2023. Dr. Lieder has published 50 peer-reviewed articles that have collectively been cited more than 5000 times.
