Joining us for his new appointment at TUM School of Management in Munich is Prof. Dr. Thorsten Pachur, Professor of Behavioral Research Methods. His research and areas of interest lie in the fields of adaptive cognition, decision-making, cognitive modeling, and process tracing. With such a rich depth and breadth of knowledge, we could not be more pleased to have him further enrich our already outstanding team of educators. We are delighted to welcome Prof. Pachur, and we wish him a successful start at TUM!
April 1, 2022. Joining us for his new appointment at TUM School of Management in Munich is Prof. Dr. Thorsten Pachur, Professor of Behavioral Research Methods. His research investigates adaptive cognition, that is, how the psychological mechanisms underlying thinking, reasoning and decision-making are shaped by the structure of the environment. A key idea is that successful decision-making can arise from the intelligent use of simple strategies – heuristics - that exploit regularities in the environment. Dr. Pachur’s research covers decision-making under risk and judgment, under uncertainty, and he is also interested in the role of intuition, and how decision-making develops across the lifespan. In his research, Dr. Pachur employs an integrative multi-method approach that includes behavioral experiments, computational modeling, process tracing (e.g., eye tracking), and neuroimaging.
Thorsten Pachur studied psychology at the Free University Berlin and the University of Sussex. He obtained his PhD in psychology from the Free University Berlin in 2006 and his habilitation from the University of Basel in 2012. He has worked as a research scientist at the University of Basel (2006-2012) and as a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (2012-2022).
Congratulations on your new appointment and best of luck in your future endeavors here at the TUM School of Management!
