Bernhard Spitzer joined the CCNB as a PostDoc with Felix Blankenburg and continued to work there as a DFG project leader. He moved on for a research fellowship at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford (UK), after which he joined the Center of Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin as a research scientist and group leader. He heads the research area Neurocognitive Foundations of Adaptive Rationality, studying the neural underpinnings of human (working) memory and decision making.

His talk is titled: Optimal irrationality in human decision making?