CV

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Profile

  • Postdoctoral researcher in behavioural economics and finance, developing computational experimentation for public policy, financial technology, and AI systems.
  • Expertise in experimental economics, online and laboratory experiments, trading platforms, causal inference, and computational social science.
  • Research focuses on financial technology, information avoidance, political polarisation, cooperation, solidarity, and behavioural responses to digital and institutional environments.
  • Designs behavioural research systems that combine human participants, algorithmic agents, real-time interaction, API-based workflows, and structured behavioural data pipelines.

General Information

Full Name Philipp Chapkovski
Position Postdoctoral researcher, University of Duisburg-Essen
Website chapkovski.com
Email [email protected]
GitHub github.com/chapkovski
Languages English - fluent; Italian - fluent; German - professional working proficiency; Russian - native.

Core Methods and Technical Stack

  • Methods
    • Experimental economics, online and laboratory experiments, causal inference, and computational social science.
    • Policy-relevant behavioural data collection using real-time, multi-user, and longitudinal experimental designs.
  • Analysis
    • Data analysis, data cleaning, and reproducible statistical workflows in Python, R, and Stata.
    • Git-based version control and reproducible research workflows.
  • Infrastructure
    • FastAPI, oTree, Vue, WebSockets, RabbitMQ, Git/GitHub, and database-backed behavioural logging.
    • Custom experimental and human-AI research systems with API-based workflows.

Professional Experience

  • 03/2024 - present
    Postdoctoral researcher in ERC project POLITSOLID
    Institute for Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
    • Designs and analyses experimental and survey-based studies on political solidarity, trust, public-service quality, and behavioural responses to social and political information.
    • Contributes to Novaland, a virtual-state environment for studying institutional experience, corruption, redistribution, and citizen-state interaction.
  • 10/2022 - 03/2024
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn, Germany
    • Developed online and lab experiments on information avoidance, polarisation, cooperation, and decision-making.
    • Built custom experimental platforms for real-time multi-user studies and platform-design experiments.
  • 05/2022 - 10/2022
    Research Fellow, Scholars at Risk program
    WZB, Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
  • 09/2018 - 04/2022
    Senior Research Fellow
    International Laboratory for Experimental and Behavioural Economics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
    • Designed online and laboratory experiments on cooperation, information avoidance, tax compliance, and market behaviour.
    • Developed reusable oTree/Django tools and real-time experimental infrastructure for interactive behavioural studies.
  • 10/2016 - 01/2018
    Research Fellow
    Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • 09/2013 - 05/2014
    Research Assistant
    Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre, European University Institute, Italy

Education

  • 2018

    Florence, Italy

    Ph.D. in Sociology and Political Science
    European University Institute
    Dissertation: Collective Sanctions and Cooperation. Three Experimental Studies. Supervisor: Prof. Diego Gambetta.
  • 2012

    St. Petersburg, Russia

    MA in Social and Political Sciences
    European University at St. Petersburg
    MA Thesis: Analysis of Social Networks of Russian Federal Elites 2000-2008.
  • 2010

    Venice, Italy

    BA in Economics
    University of Ca' Foscari
    BA Thesis: Micro-consequences of Pension System Reforms in Post-Soviet Countries.

Teaching Experience

  • 2026
    Polarization and Populism: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses
    University of Duisburg-Essen
    Seminar course for Master's students.
  • 2025
    Comparative politics module: Polarization and its behavioral consequences
    University of Duisburg-Essen
    Seminar course for Bachelor's students.
  • 2024
    Real-Time Online Behavioral Experiments
    University of Basel
    Workshop for PhD students in organizational psychology.
  • 2023
    Designing Interactive Experiments with oTree
    University of Pisa
    Workshop.
  • 2020
    Behavioral Experimental Science Online and in the Lab
    Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
  • 2019
    Running Behavioral Experiments with oTree
    IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
  • 2018
    Programming Behavioral Experiments
    European Commission Joint Research Centre
  • 2017
    Social Norms, Control and Punishment
    University of Zurich
    Undergraduate course co-taught with Prof. Heiko Rauhut.
  • 2019
    Experimental Methods in Political Science
    Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

Grants, Prizes, and Fellowships

  • 2024
    • Gorilla and Prolific Grant: Study on political alignment and engagement in collaborative word encryption tasks using Gorilla's Multiplayer tools.
  • 2017
    • First Prize at the Conference/Hackathon "Experimental Methods in Sociology Using oTree" at WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    • Grant for innovating teaching "Lehrkredit," University of Zurich: "Using Mobile Lab in Teaching Analytical Sociology".

Organization and Presentations

  • 2025
    • Co-organizer, POLITSOLID Workshop, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
  • 2024
    • "Political Polarization in the Workplace: Impact on Team Performance and Information Exchange," IMEBESS, Riga, Latvia.
  • 2023
    • "The sound of silence: understanding social avoidance in a Russian war context," Symposium on Social Science Research in the Context of Conflict, War, and Authoritarianism, London, UK.
  • 2021
    • Co-organizer, International Conference RExCon21 on Social Preferences and Social Norms.
    • Co-organizer, I Pacific School of Experimental Economics, Vladivostok.
  • 2019
    • Co-organizer, Summer School on Experimental Economics, St. Petersburg.

Journals I Have Reviewed For

  • American Political Science Review
  • British Journal of Political Science
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • European Sociological Review
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Democratization
  • Europe-Asia Studies
  • Media, War & Conflict