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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum vitae Giorgio CORICELLI Department of Economics- KAP 306D University of Southern California 3620 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0253 Phone: (213) 740-3517 Email: [email protected] Web: https://dornsife.usc.edu/coricelli/ Education 2002 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Arizona, USA 2001 Master of Arts in Economics, University of Arizona, USA 1995 Degree in Economics, Magna cum Laude. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy Academic experience 2019- Professor of Economics and Psychology. Department of Economics and Member of the Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2013-2018 Associate Professor of Economics and Psychology (with Tenure). Department of Economics and Member of the Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2010-2012 Assistant Professor of Economics and Psychology. Department of Economics and Member of the Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2004-2010 Research scientist CR 1-CNRS Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives (CNC) Lyon. (2012-2013) Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris). Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC), Départment d'Etudes Cognitives. 2002-2004 Post-doctoral research fellow. Department of Economics, University of Siena Visiting Research positions 2008- Visiting Research Professor, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento,Trento, Italy 2009-2010 Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2007 Visiting scholar, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Pasadena, CA, USA 2003 Chercheur associe estranger, CNRS Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon 2002 Visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems. Director: Werner Güth. Strategic Interaction Group. Jena, Germany Editorial Board: Science Advances. Associate Editor 2019- Journal of Economic Psychology, Associate Editor 2019- Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, Associate Editor 2020- Revue d'économie politique, 2013- Teaching experience Courses taught: • Experimental Economics, ESL University of Arizona, 2000 • Game Theory and Experimental Economics, Doctoral program in economics, University of Siena, 2001 • Theory of Mind and Autism, University of Arizona, 2001 • Econ201B, Macroeconomics. Spring 2001, University of Arizona • Statistical Economics, University of Siena, 2002-2003 • Experimental Economics, University of Lyon 2, France, 2004 • Neuroeconomics, Doctoral program cognitive sciences, University of Siena, 2005 • Introduction to Neuroeconomics, Doctoral program in Economics and Complexity, University of Torino, 2006-2007 • Introduction to Neuroeconomics, SISSA, Trieste, 2006 • Brain and decision making, Doctoral program in Behavioral Economics, University of Trento, 2006-2007 • The neural basis of decision-making. Graduate course. University Claude Bernard, Lyon I, 2007-2008 • Neuroeconomics, Doctoral program in Economics and Complexity, University of Torino, 2008 • The neural basis of individual and social decision making. 2009 o Graduate course. University of Torino; Graduate course. o University of Trento o Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon • Cognitive Bias and Neuroeconomics, GATE Lyon, France 2010-2011 • Neurobiology of decision-making. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2010 • Neuroeconomics. Master program in Economics and Psychology. Paris I (Economics Department of Pantheon-Sorbonne University) and Institute of Psychology of Paris Descartes University. 2011-2012 • MBB S-93. Mind, Brain, and Behavior in Decision Making, Harvard Summer Program 2011 • Neural Basis of decision making. University of Trento. Master in Cognitive Science • MBB S-93. Mind, Brain, and Behavior in Decision Making, Harvard Summer Program 2012-2013 (teaching evaluation: 4.7/5) • MBB S-93. Neuroeconomics, Harvard Summer Program 2018 • ECON 303, Microeconomics Theory, University of Southern California, USA • ECON 405 Neuroeconomics, University of Southern California, USA • ECON 608, Advanced Neuroeconomics (graduate level), University of Southern California, USA (teaching evaluation: 5/5) New courses developed: ECON 405 Neuroeconomics, University of Southern California, USA ECON 608, Advanced Neuroeconomics (graduate level), University of Southern California, USA MBB S-93. Mind, Brain, and Behavior in Decision Making, Harvard Summer Program 2 Honors and Awards • Graduate assistantship from the University Carlos III, Madrid, 1995-96 • Fellowship from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” 1997-98 • Fellow, Economics Science Laboratory Graduate Student Workshop, summer, 1997 • George Coleman Award for the 1999-2000 academic years USA • Graduate fellowship from the University of Arizona, 1998-2002 • Prix Découvertes 2004: Comment éprouver du regret influence nos décisions. From the French Ministry of Research. • Awardee of the “Contrats Hospitaliers de Recherche Translationnelle - 2010“. French Ministry of Health. RESEARCH GRANTS • Grant from the Economic Science Laboratory, University of Arizona, 2001-2002 • Grant from EU-TMR Research Network ENDEAR, 2001-2002 • Human Frontier Science Program - HFSP. Title of the project: “Decision making and strategies in the brain: a multidisciplinary approach for understanding social behaviour”. 2004-2007. • Principal invstigator : “Systemes complexes en SHS”, Grant from CNRS and Ministere de la Recherche, 2003-2004. Title of the project: “Relational Complexity” (48,000 Euros). • Principal investigator: PAT (Provincia Autonoma di Trento) research grant. Title: Neuroeconomics. 2008-2011 (385,000 Euros). • Principal investigator: ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). Title of the project: “SocialBrain“. 2008-2011 (150,000 Euros). • Principal investigator: ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). Title of the project: “The free energy theory of emotion“. 2012-2015 (300,000 Euros). • Principal investigator: ERC-Consolidator Grant. Title of the project: “Transfer Learning within and between brains“. 2014-2019 (2,000,000 Euros). • Submitted: NSF Proposal #7913368. “The Effects of Guilt and Regret on Trust and Cooperation between Humans and Autonomous Machines”. PI: Giorgio Coricelli, CO-PI: Jonathan Gratch. Submitting Institution: USC ($1,099,187). • Ready for submission: NIA-NIH. “Impaired context-learning in the aging brain”. PI: Giorgio Coricelli, CO-PI: Mara Mather. Submitting Institution: USC. BIBLIOMETRICS Total number of publications: 65 (52 papers published in peered reviewed journals, 13 papers in books or collective volumes); Currently I also have 3 paper R&R, 6 papers under review and 6 ready for submission, 16 manuscripts in preparation. H-Index: 24. Total number of citations: 4122 PUBLICATIONS Papers in books or collective volumes 1. Coricelli, G., McCabe, K.A. and Smith V.L. (2000). “Theory-of-Mind Mechanism in Personal Exchange”. Affective Minds, Elsevier Science Publishers, pp. 249-259. 2. Coricelli, G., Schwarzbach, J. Cervello e decisioni (2008). In Bonini, N., Del Missier, F. e Rumiati R. (Eds.) Giudizio e Decisione. Il MULINO. 3. Giardini, F., Coricelli, G., Joffily, M., Sirigu, A. (2007). “The effect of desirability on confidence”. In: Abdellaboui, M., Hey J.D. (Eds.) Advances in Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty. Heidelberg: Springer. 3 4. Coricelli, G., and Rustichini A. (2009). “Reward-based emotions: affective evaluation of outcomes and regret learning”. In Tremblay, L. and Dreher, J.C. (Eds). Handbook of Reward and Decision Making, Elsevier. 5. Coricelli, G., and Nagel, R. (2010). “Walking with Reinhard Selten and the Guessing Game: From the Origin to the Brain”. In “The Selten School of Behavioral Economics”, Abdolkarim Sadrieh and Axel Ockenfels (Eds.). Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 111-123. 6. Coricelli, G., Rusconi, E. (2011) “Probing with TMS the decisional brain”. Handbook of Process Tracing Methods for Decision Research. Psychology Press, pp. 205-222. 7. Chierchia, C., and Coricelli, G. (2011). “The neuroeconomics of cognitive control”. In Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control, R. Mars, J. Sallet, M. Rushworth and N. Yeung (Eds). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA 8. Coricelli, G. and Joffily, M. (2013). Cognitive-based emotions: theory and evidence from the brain. In F. Paglieri, L. Tummolini, M. Miceli, R. Falcone (Eds.), The goals of cognition: essays in honor of Cristiano Castelfranchi. London: College Publications. 203- 209. 9. Coricelli, G. (2015). Strategic Mentalizing: the neural correlates of strategic choice. Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, A.W. Toga et al (Eds). 153-158. 10. Coricelli, G. and Nagel, R. (2015). "Responses from the body: An introduction to Neuroeconomics." in Experimental Economics, Eds. Branas-Garza and Cabrales. Palgrave McMillan 11. Coricelli, G., Bault, N. and Rusconi, E. (2018). "Probing the decisional process with noninvasive brain stimulation" Handbook of Process Tracing Methods for Decision Research. Psychology Press (forthcoming) 12. Coricelli, G., Polonio, L. Vostroknutov, A. (2020). "The process of choice in games". Handbook of Experimental Game Theory (forthcoming) 13. Timberlake, B., Coricelli, G., Bault, N. (2020). The Moral Psychology of Regret, in Mark Alfano (ed.). Moral Psychology of the Emotions. Rowman & Littlefield International. 165- 184. Papers in Peered Reviewed Journals 14. Coricelli, G., and Luini, L. (2003). “Double Moral Hazard: an Experiment on Warranties”. Economia impresa e mercati finanziari, 2, pp. 7-25. 15. Camille, N., Coricelli,
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