Anna Dreber Almenberg, who holds the Johan Björkman Chair in Economics at SSE, has been appointed Wallenberg Scholar. Wallenberg Scholars is a program aimed at leading senior scholars in Sweden and is awarded by the Wallenberg foundations. The appointment comes with a large research grant for a period of five years. There are currently 79 active Wallenberg Scholars, and Anna Dreber is one of only nine in social sciences and humanities.

Anna Dreber Almenberg has also been awarded the Assar Lindbeck medal, the purpose of which is to promote research in the economic sciences. The prize, commemorating professor Assar Lindbeck's important work in the field of economics, is awarded every other year to a researcher under the age of 45, and includes a cash prize of SEK 250,000.

Globally recognized research

Anna Dreber Almenberg was born in 1981 and got her PhD at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009. In 2016, she was appointed the first female professor in Economics at Stockholm School of Economics, and has held the Johan Björkman Chair in Economics ever since.

She is a well-established researcher whose interdisciplinary studies in behavioral economics and the interaction between nature and nurture from an economic perspective have been published in the world's foremost scientific journals. Her current research also concerns the question of which scientific findings we can actually trust. Recent studies show that in many fields a large share of results do not replicate, meaning that the results are different when the studies are redone with new and larger samples. Professor Dreber Almenberg's research explores these problems and ways to perform studies in a more reliable way, generating results that better hold up to scrutiny.

These awards are acknowledgements of the stellar research that Professor Dreber Almenberg is carrying out and will enable her to continue her work to further our understanding in the field of economics.