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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 Zoom Seminar Series

• 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.