Fausto is an assistant professor of marketing at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. 

His work examines consumer judgment and decision making, with a focus on social and emotional influence and time perception. 

He received his Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of California-Berkeley. Prior to joining Olin, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the marketing department at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.