Tomás is the Director of the UIB Decision Science Laboratory. He received his doctorate in Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) in 2009. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory in Carnegie Mellon University (USA), and later a Visiting Associate Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain). From 2013 to 2016, Tomás was a Research Scientist at the Center for Adaptive Rationality in the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Germany). He is interested in how individuals and groups explore, process, and integrate descriptive (symbolic information) and personally experienced information when making decisions. His most recent publications are:

Lejarraga, T., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Pachur, T., & Hertwig, R. (2019). The Attention-Aversion Gap: How Allocation of Attention Relates to Loss Aversion, Evolution and Human Behavior, in press

Lejarraga, T., Frey, R., Schnitzlein, D., & Hertwig, T. (2019). No Effect of Birth Order on Adult Risk Taking, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(13), 6019-6024.

Lejarraga, T., Woike, J. K., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Experiences and Descriptions of Financial Uncertainty. Are They Equivalent? In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & The Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & ARC Research Group (2019). Taming Uncertainty. MIT Press.