Pavel Kocourek

Hello. I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Duisburg–Essen on Eugen Kovac's DFG-funded project "Timing Games: Theory and Applications".

I am an economist (PhD NYU, 2019) working in economic theory (game theory and information economics), with research on decision-making under uncertainty and bounded rationality (published in the Journal of the European Economic Association and Theoretical Economics), and on strategic interaction in innovation races and information disclosure.

In parallel, I am developing work-in-progress applying economic theory to AI safety- and governance-relevant strategic behavior, focused on frontier model release decisions (release vs. internal deployment).