Jeeva Somasundaram

Jeeva Somasundaram is an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences in the Operations and Technology area at IE University. Prior to joining IE, Jeeva completed his PhD in Management (Decision Sciences) from INSEAD, France and was a Postdoctoral researcher in Behavioral Economics at the National University of Singapore (with join affiliation to ETH Zurich). During his PhD, Jeeva was also a Marie Curie early stage researcher with the consumer competence research training (CONCORT) network of the European Union and a visiting PhD student at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, USA.

Jeeva’s research primarily focuses on Anticipatory emotions (regret and disappointment), Habit formation, Risk and Time preferences. Jeeva studies these phenomena theoretically as well as in different domains such as digitial addiction, energy conservation, algorithmic decisión support, and market entry games. Jeeva’s research primary involves building descriptively accurate models and testing those models in lab and field experiments.

Jeeva has published his research in top economic journals such as Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

At IE University, Jeeva teaches Data Analytics for International MBA and Masters in Management students. Jeeva also teaches a course on Experimental Design for PhD and Master in Management Students.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor in Decision Sciences, Operations and Technology Area, IE University, Madrid, Spain, Sep, 2018 – Present

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Behavioral Economics, National University of Singapore (Joint affiliation to Future Resilient Systems, ETH Zurich), 2016 – 2018