Michael Muthukrishna is Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. He is also Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD, Affiliate of the LSE Data Science Institute, Fellow at the Charter Cities Institute, Director of the PhD Programme in Psychological and Behavioural Science, and Technical Director of The Database of Religious History. He is also a board member of the One Pencil Project, Attain, Besample, and the International Behavioural Public Policy Association (IBPPA).

Professor Muthukrishna's research focuses on answering three broad questions:

(1) Why are humans so different to other animals?

(2) What are the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie culture and social change, and how is information transmitted, maintained, and modified?

(3) How can the answers to these questions be used to tackle some of the challenges we face as a species?