Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University (CV, Google Scholar, @heller_yuval).
The Beatrice and Morris Glasser Memorial Chair in Accountancy.
My research focuses on game theory and microeconomic theory; especially evolutionary game theory, social learning, behavioral economics, games with pre-play communication, evolutionary foundations of economic behavior, and experimental economics.
Editorial Positions:
Games and Economic Behavior, Advisory Editor.
International Journal of Game Theory, Associate Editor.
Contact Details:
Email: yuval.heller@biu.ac.il, yuval26@gmail.com (my old UCSD email is not working anymore)
Phone/WhatsApp: +972-(0)52-5282-182, Fax: +972-77-364-3691, Office: 209 (Building 504).
Postal Address: Deprt. of Economics (Building 504), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002 Israel.
Past Appointments
2022-2023: Visiting professor, Dept. of Economics and MGSDII, University of California, San Diego.
2016-2022: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University
2014-2016: Associate Professor, Department of Economics and the Queen's College, University of Oxford.
2011-2014: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Nuffield College, U. of Oxford.
Education
B.Sc. (2000): The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Talpiot distinguished academic program).
Ph.D. (2011) & M.Sc. (2005, summa cum laude): Tel Aviv University (Ph.D. dissertation).
Research Students:
Current Ph.D. students: Itay Tubul, Tal Arbiv.
Current MA Students: Yoav Kashi
Past Ph.D. students: Kfir Tshuva (2023), Yamit Asulin (2024)
Past MA students: David Sturrock (2016), Itay Tubul (2021), Sivan Rabi-Refaeli (2022).
Recent Grants:
ISF: Game changing innovative learning (2025-28, joint with Ziv Hellman),
Mentors and recombinators (2022-25, joint with Ziv Hellman), Structural approach for analyzing bank assets (2019-22, joint w. Alon Raviv)
BSF: The benefits of naive data analytics (2021-23, joint with Ron Berman)
ERC Strating grant: Evolutionary stability, observability, and efficiency (2016-21).
Selected Links:
Learning, Evolution and Games (LEG) Forum (Google Discussion Group, please email me to join the mailing list).
LEG annual conferences on learning, evolution & games:
LEG2025 (June 9th-11th, Bar-Ilan, Tel Aviv, Israel)
LEG2024 (July 8th-9th, Brisbane, Australia)
Past events: LEG2023, LEG2022 (Lucca), LEG2021 (Zoom), LEG2019 (Bar-Ilan), LEG2018 (Lund)
Research seminars in Bar-Ilan: Economics Departmental, Economic & Game Theory.