Daniel Schunk is a professor of public economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany), a permanent research fellow at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), and a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (Germany). His research focuses on experimental and behavioral economics, on economics of education and on public policy and it has been published in economics journals (e.g. American Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Games and Economic Behavior), as well as in interdisciplinary journals (e.g., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Neuron). Beyond his work in economics, he maintains active collaborations with neuroscientists, psychologists, geneticists as well as bioinformaticians and he is a regular teacher at international summer schools on interdisciplinary topics that cross the boundaries between economics, education research and neurobiology.