Tom Vaessen

Part of the team organising & communicating civil engineering works on behalf of Thames Water. Responsible for: Overseeing works progress. Communicating with stakeholders. Strategic planning for the works-teams. Managing customer complaints & queries. Visualising data to present work progress.

Combining economics, game theory & psychology to analyse decision-making, with focus on Cognitive psychology (8.5), Behavioural Insights (8.0) & Innovation & Technological change (7.5). Master thesis: Empirical research on the effect of social norms & moral identity on sustainable decision-making (7.5) Lead team studying loss-aversive message framing in promoting behaviour (8.5) Facilitated seminar on human preferences for fairness & presented crucial developments in the literature (8.5)

Psychology with quantitative focus. Statistics (7.7 average - including [logistic] regression & ANOVA), Organisational psychology (8.0 average) & Social psychology (8.0). Minor in economics & experimental economics (8.0). Thesis on the psychological determinants of business growth motivation among SMEs. (8.0).