Researchers and funding

Researchers

She received the Joint PhD degree in Economics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and in Materials, Mechatronics, and Systems Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2017 for her research on mathematical models to support decision making in the presence of uncertainty stemming from the subjectivity of human thinking and incompleteness of information about the decision-making situations.

Her research has focused on decision-making biases and mathematical models to support decision making. She has authored (mainly as the single or the first author) 16 research papers published in various international research journals such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and a monograph in the series Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing.

Jana Siebert has received several awards for her research. She was a recipient of the Best PhD Thesis Award by the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) in 2019 and of the Best PhD Thesis Award by the University of Trento in 2018. In addition, she was awarded the Seal of Excellence by the European Commission for the research proposal PerFake submitted to Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions in 2017. The research proposal PerFake received funding of 132,500 € from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports in 2018. She also received the Best Mathematical Methods in Economics Conference PhD Student Paper Award from the Czech Society for Operations Research in 2014.

 

He is a Member of the Coordinating Board of the EURO Working Group of Behavioural Operational Research, a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society on MCDM, a Member of the Editorial Board of the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis, and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Alliance for Decision Education. He received a doctoral degree in Economics and later habilitated in Economics with his work in Behavioural OR and Decision Analysis at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

He has been doing research in behavioural decision-making, actively collaborating with the leaders in the field Detlof von Winterfeldt (University of Southern California) and Ralph Keeney (Duke University). His research objective is to contribute to better-informed decision making and thereby to make better decisions for individuals as well as for organisations. He has been a principal investigator in research projects on behavioural decision making with overall funding of more than 600,000 €. For example, he received 250,000 € funding from Oberfrankenstiftung, Markgraf-Stiftung, and Adalbert-Raps-Stiftung and 200,000 € from the Adalbert-Raps Stiftung for developing and evaluating decision-making trainings to reduce decision-making biases of adolescents. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Operations Research and the European Journal of Operational Research. In addition, he has been acknowledged three times as a finalist in the Practice Award of the Decision Analysis Society (INFORMS).

Funding

Full title of the research project: PerFake – Reducing belief PERseverance in the context of FAKE news and misinformation

Part of the project Supporting the International Mobility of Researchers – MSCA-IF at Palacky University Olomouc co-funded by the European Union and the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Project number: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_070/0010285

Duration: 24 months

End date: 28.2.2022

The PerFake project proposal was originally submitted to 2017 Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions Individual Fellowships and was awarded the Seal of Excellence by the European Commission.