Philipp Strack

Philipp Strack (born 1985 in Germany^[1]) is a German and Greek economist who has served as a Professor of Economics and Computer Science at Yale University since 2022.^[2] In 2024, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal.^[3]

Philipp Strack
Born	1985 (age 39–40) Bonn, Germany[1]
Citizenship	German and Greek[2]
Academic background
Alma mater	Bonn Graduate School of Economics (PhD) University of Bonn (Diplom)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Heidhues[2]
Academic work
Discipline	Mechanism design Information economics Behavioral economics
Institutions	Yale University
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (2024)
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Career

Strack was born in Bonn, Germany to a Greek mother and a German father.^[4] He earned diploms in economics and mathematics at the University of Bonn, and he completed his PhD in economics at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics in 2013.^[2]

From 2013 to 2014, Strack was a postdoctoral fellow at Microsoft Research New England. He became an assistant professor in the economics department at UC Berkeley in 2014, where he became an associate professor in 2018. In 2019, he became an associate professor of economics at Yale University. As of 2022, Strack is a full professor of economics and computer science at Yale.