Rosemarie Nagel is an ICREA-Research Professor and BESlab-UPF director in experimental, behavioral, and neuroeconomics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE. In 1994, Nagel gained her doctoral degree in economics under Reinhard Selten (University Bonn) and was Alvin Roth’s postdoctoral fellow (University Pittsburgh) 1994-95. In 1995, she joined the Department of Economics and Business at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and was promoted to full professor in 2006. In 2007, she joined ICREA. She was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2023 and as a Fellow of the Economic Science Association (ESA) in 2025.

Her research bridges economic theory and human behavior by structuring bounded rationality and economic situations through experimental designs and cognitive models, using game-theoretic, laboratory, and field experiments, as well as neuroscientific tools. She links behavioral data with brain activity measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or eye-tracking data, collaborating with neuroeconomists, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, biologists, and psychologists. Furthermore, with experimental economists and macro theorists, and recently also with computational economists, she organizes summer schools, workshops, and research using experimental tools to tackle macro and computational economic questions. Her approaches are applied in microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, management, psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, as well as in policymaking and assessment centers, and have even been featured in a recent episode of a Netflix series.