Uri Simonsohn is a behavioral scientist at ESADE business school in Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, Spain, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
His substantive interest is in Judgment and Decision Making, and he is also a methodologist.
He earned his undergraduate degree in economics from Universidad Católica de Chile, and his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in Social and Decision Sciences in 2003, and became a professor of Operations Management at the Wharton School where he stayed until 2017, leaving to move to ESADE Business School in Barcelona as a full professor.
[1] He has been involved in research on false-positives, p-hacking, experimental replication, and pre-registrations of research.
He has contributed to identifying various cases of scientific fraud including the work of Dirk Smeesters, Lawrence Sanna, Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino.