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News | June 11, 2016

PhD student Stephan Jagau has won third prize in the UvA 2016 Thesis Prize Competition

PhD student Stephan Jagau has been awarded the third prize in the UvA 2016 Thesis prize Competition. In his MPhil thesis Stephan examined empirically what mechanism determines choice shifts, the phenomenon that people under the influence of the group come to different decisions.

Stephan graduated in September 2015 from the TI MPhil program, and is currently a PhD candidate under supervision of Theo Offerman at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED), Universiy of Amsterdam. He is also a member of the Research Center for Epistemic Game Theory (EpiCenter) at Maastricht University.

Winners of the UvA Thesis Prize 2016 were announced on Saturday, 4 June 2016, during the UvA’s annual University Day at Oudemanhuispoort in Amsterdam.

The UvA Thesis Prize is awarded annually to the best and most original thesis of a Master’s student. The prize is an additional reward for the university diploma and comes with a cash award: €3,000 for first place, €2,000 for second place, and €1,000 for third place.