Joris Schroeder is a Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham, within the Faculty of Social Sciences. He holds a BA, MA and MSc from the University of Vienna and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on social mechanisms of cooperation, blood donation behaviour, economic inequality and prosocial behaviour including charitable giving and volunteering, the external validity of social preference games, and interdisciplinarity. He is affiliated with the Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx) and contributes to the ERC-funded PRINCIPLES project on cooperation.
Schroeder has participated in major collaborative research on the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences, including contributions to a large-scale study published in Nature in 2025 that evaluated research credibility through reproduction, replication, expert assessment and machine-learning approaches. His academic appointments centre on his current role as Research Fellow at Nottingham, following his doctoral studies in Amsterdam.