Mirjam A. Jenny PhD

Mirjam Jenny is the head research scientist of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB). Her research in decision making and risk literacy is located at the intersection of psychology, computer science, and medicine. Currently, she is developing decision aids for the medical domain, for example, fast and frugal decision trees for emergency medicine and anesthesiology using machine learning methods. Being actively engaged in the German health care landscape she hopes to improve the medical decisions of patients, doctors, and institutions. After receiving her PhD in psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, she spent her postdoc at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the MPIB where she won the Otto Hahn Medal awarded by the Max Planck Society. She then moved into the health care sector and spent one year at the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians as a data scientist.