Carsten Murawski is a Professor in the Department of Finance within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He holds the position of Director of the Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets, Graduate Research Director of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Decision, Risk and Financial Sciences, and Academic Lead of the University of Bonn-University of Melbourne joint PhD program. Murawski earned his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and his Master’s degree from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Before joining the University of Melbourne, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich and was a visiting researcher at New York University and Columbia University. His teaching experience spans undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Melbourne, the University of Zurich, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. Additionally, he brings several years of professional experience from the finance industry.

Murawski's primary research and teaching interests lie in decision neuroscience, experimental economics and finance, decision theory, consumer decision-making, computational psychiatry, and cognitive science. His work examines the neurocognitive computations that underpin decision-making in healthy and clinical populations across humans and non-human animals, employing methods such as behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, pharmacological challenges, and neuroimaging. Translational efforts address consumer financial decision-making, the interplay between decision-making and health, and high-performance decision-making. He is co-editor of the book Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (Springer, 2025, with Ulrich Ettinger and Bert Heinrichs). Key publications include “Computational Complexity and Human Decision-Making” in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2017, with Peter Bossaerts), “Not so Smart? ‘Smart’ Drugs Increase the Level but Decrease the Quality of Cognitive Effort” in Science Advances (2023, with Elizabeth Bowman, David Coghill, and Peter Bossaerts), and “Uncertainty and Computational Complexity” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2019, with Peter Bossaerts and Nitin Yadav). His research has appeared in leading journals across biology, cognitive science, finance, neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology, and has been featured in media outlets such as CBS, The Economist, Financial Times, and The Washington Post. Murawski co-initiated Street Finance in 2015, a program integrated into the Bachelor of Commerce that has delivered financial education to over 2,000 Victorian high school students.

Professional Email: carstenm@unimelb.edu.au