Professor Tomasz Strzalecki Named the Furer Fellow, 2012 - 2015

Professor Tomasz Strzalecki has been named the Furer Fellow in the Department of Economics, for a three-year term, effective July 1, 2012. The Furer Fellowship is an endowed position that recognizes the achievement of assistant and associate professors in the Economics Department.

The Fellowship was established in 2003 by Andrew E. Furer, A.B. ’75, J.D. ’77 for tenure-track Economics faculty research and development. Mr. Furer has a long history of supporting Economics at Harvard, his field of concentration as a Harvard undergraduate.

Strzalecki has been an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University since 2009. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2008 and an M.A. from the University of Warsaw in 2002. His primary research interests are in the areas of decision theory and economic theory. Much of his research efforts have focused on ambiguity aversion, temporal preferences, and bounded rationality.