Sandra Matz was born and raised in a small village in the Southwest corner of Germany. After receiving her B.Sc. of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and her PhD from the University of Cambridge, she joined Columbia Business School in 2017 as a Professor of Business at the age of 27. She currently serves the Lulu Chow Wang Professor of Business, the Co-Director of the Advanced Technology and Human Performance Lab and the Principle Investigator of the ELEVATE Lab for Human Flourishing in the Age of AI.
As a computational social scientist with a background in psychology and computer science, Dr. Matz studies human behavior by uncovering the hidden relationships between our digital lives and our psychology. Her goal is to make data relatable, and help individuals and businesses make better and more ethical decisions.
Over the last 10 years, she has published over 50 academic papers in the world’s leading peer review journals, and her work has been frequently covered by many of the major news outlets, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, or Business Insider. In addition, Dr. Matz has shared her findings with business leaders, policy makers and the broader public through OpEds, keynote speeches, podcasts, TV appearances and consulting work.
Dr. Matz has won numerous awards for her research and teaching, including the SAGE early career award for social and personality psychologists, Poets and Quants 40 under 40 best business school professors, Capital Young Elite 40 under 40, World Frontiers Forum Young Pioneer, Pacific Standard Magazine’s 30 under 30 Top Thinkers, and DataIQ’s 100 Most Influential Data Marketers.
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