Award

Maria Pykälä will receive a doctoral prize at HEC Lausanne’s upcoming Annual Doctoral Event in November, recognizing outstanding work in the social sciences and humanities. Maria completed her PhD in the Department of Organizational Behavior at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne, under the supervision of Prof. Charles Efferson. She defended her dissertation, Social Learning in Complex Systems: Experiments and Simulations, in late 2025.