Mikhail Spektor is a Juan de la Cierva Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a BSE Affiliated Professor. Prior to this he was a research fellow at the Department of Psychology of the University of Freiburg.

In his main research agenda, he investigates how human decision making is affected by the choice context and learning processes. To obtain a comprehensive process-level understanding of human decision making, he relies on experimental, computational, and psychophysiological approaches.

His work has been published in top scientific journals such as Psychological Review, Psychological Science, and eLife.