Personal information

Date of birth: July 20th, 1970

Place of birth: Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

Citizenship: Dutch

Marital status: Married to Catalina Bordoy Marcó

Children: Maria and Lucas

Employment history

2008 – present: Associate Professor at Maastricht University (Netherlands)

Department of Quantitative Economics

2002 – 2008: Assistant Professor at Maastricht University (Netherlands)

Department of Quantitative Economics

2000 – 2002: Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

Department of Economics

1998 – 2000: Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

Department of Economics

1997 – 1998: Post doc / visiting professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)

Department of Economics and Economic History

Education

1993 – 1997: PhD in Economics, at Maastricht University (Netherlands)

Title of dissertation: Information Structures in Non-cooperative Games

Supervisors: Prof. dr. Hans Peters, and dr. Mathijs Jansen

1988 – 1993: Master Degree in Mathematics, at Technical University Aachen (Germany)

1982 – 1988: Atheneum, at Sintermeerten College Heerlen (Netherlands)

Books

I have written two books so far.

Epistemic Game Theory: Reasoning and Choice

Published at Cambridge University Press in June 2012.

This is a textbook on epistemic game theory – the first in its kind – which I have written for bachelor students, master students and PhD students at universities. It can be used as a textbook for a general course in game theory, or for a more specialized course in epistemic game theory. The book is full of examples and exercises based on situations from everyday life.

Rationality in Extensive Form Games

Published at Kluwer Academic Publishers, Theory and Decision Library, in 2001.

This book is a monograph on the theory of dynamic games. It explores various concepts that have been proposed in the literature for dynamic games, and investigates the relationships between these.

Teaching experience

Since 1997 I have given the following courses at universities:

Various game theory courses, at bachelor, master and PhD level

Course in epistemic game theory, for master and PhD students.

Mathematics for first year economics and international business students

Mathematics for second year economics and international business students

Course in managerial decision making, for third year students in economics and international business

Course in statistics for PhD students

EPICENTER: Our research group in Epistemic Game Theory

Some years ago, I have founded a research group on epistemic game theory at Maastricht University, together with my colleagues Christian Bach and Elias Tsakas. The research group is called EPICENTER. We have developed a lot of activities already, such as a reading group on epistemic game theory, joint research projects, andthe organization of mini-courses on various topics. For more information about the EPICENTER, click here.

Supervision of PhD students

I have supervised (or am supervising) the following PhD students:

2014 – present: Bilge Baser (Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul)

She will work on the software implementation of recursive procedures in epistemic game theory.

Bilge will do a double degree in Istanbul and Maastricht.

2013 – present: Christian Nauerz.

He works on models of step-by-step reasoning procedures in epistemic game theory.

2011 – present: Angie Mounir.

She works on models of bounded and approximate rationality in epistemic game theory.

2008 – 2010: Christian W. Bach.

Title of thesis: Interactive Epistemology and Reasoning: On the Foundations of Game Theory.

2006 – 2010: Bram Driesen.

Title of thesis: Loss and Risk Aversion in Games and Decisions.

2005 – 2009: Sascha Wolf.

Title of thesis: Monotonicity and Bayes-Nash Implementation.

2003 – 2007: Tim Schulteis.

Title of thesis: On Beliefs and Incomplete Preferences in Noncooperative Games

2000 – 2003: Noemí Navarro.

Title of thesis: Fair Allocation Rules for Networks.

Invited speaker at conferences and workshops

2012: Invited speaker at Workshop on Modeling Strategic Reasoning in Leiden (Netherlands).

2012: Keynote speaker at Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 2012) at Sevilla (Spain).

2012, 2013 and 2014: Invited Speaker at Workshop on Belief Change in Social Context, in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

2011: Invited speaker at Decisions, Games and Logic Workshop at Maastricht (Netherlands)

Presentations at conferences and workshops

During the last few years, I have presented my research at the following conferences and workshops:

2013: Econometric Society Meeting, Gothenburg (Sweden).

2012: World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Istanbul (Turkey)

2011: Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) at Faro (Portugal)

2010: Workshop on Epistemic Game Theory in Stony Brook, US.

2008: World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston, US.

2007: Spanish-Netherlands-Italian Meeting on Game Theory, Maastricht.

2006: Augustus de Morgan Workshop, London.

2006: Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory, Liverpool, UK.

2005: Augustus de Morgan Workshop, London.

2004: Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory, Leipzig, Germany.

2004: World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille, France.

2002: Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory, Turin, Italy.

2002: Spanish-Netherlands-Italian Meeting on Game Theory, Seville, Spain.

Associate editor

Since 2013 I am an associate editor for the International Journal of Game Theory.

Refereeing for journals

I have acted as a referee for the following international journals:

Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Economics and Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Logic, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Surveys, Synthese, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, International Game Theory Review, Mathematical Social Sciences, Spanish Economic Review,Operations Research and Economic Theory.

Refereeing for conferences and workshops

Recently, I have been member of the program committee for the following conferences and workshops:

Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT)

Decisions, Games and Logic Workshop (DGL)

Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK)

Languages

I speak the following languages:

Dutch (mother tongue)

Spanish (fluent)

English (fluent)

German (fluent)

Awards and prizes

In 2008, I received the award for best researcher of the year at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University.