Ben is Professor for Empirical Business Research at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Head of the WU Institute for Markets and Strategy, and Director of the WU Competence Center for Experimental Research. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cologne in 2006. From 2006 to 2008, Ben was the CLER Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Business School, and from 2008 to 2016 first Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Ben works in experimental and behavioral economics, with research topics in bargaining, trust, market design, group decision behavior, and political economy.