Research

Welcome!

My name is Julian Berger. I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. My position starts in September 2026.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern Denmark in the Strategic and Organization Design group.

Previously, I was at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development where I finished my PhD in April 2026. My PhD was funded by the Foundation of German Business (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft). I have received further funding by the Danish Data Science Adacemy and the Joachim Herz Foundation.

Generally, I work on improving the decision making of individuals, crowds and hybrid human-AI systems. I combine decision making research from psychology and economics with the latest insights from computer science. You can find my projects here but google scholar may be more up to date.

Industry

Together with Philip Jakob, I founded RigorLabs, a tech R&D firm that develops tool for improving the rigor and robustness of science.

During my PhD, I have also worked as a consultant and ML engineer. Here, my focus was on the development of interpretable machine learning models that are accurate, fair and transparent. It is good fun. In my industry work I often join forces with Simply Rational.