"Shabnam Mousavi was once an electrical engineer, then moved on to obtain a PhD in Economics and one in Statistics from Virginia Tech. She is an interdisciplinary scientist exploring the many aspects of human choice behavior. She has held university faculty positions in finance at the Johns Hopkins and Georgia State and in statistics at Penn State. She has been a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin since 2007, as well as a network member of the University of Chicago Wisdom Project since 2008 (grant recipient)."