Wändi Bruine de Bruin is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, and director of the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Policy initiative. Her research aims to understand and inform how people make decisions about their personal health, their carbon footprint, and their household finances, with more than 150 peer-reviewed publications on these topics. She has been studying risk perceptions and protective behaviors, food insecurity, age differences in mental health, and political polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis.

Wändi received her Ph.D. in Behavioral Decision Research and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, her M.Sc. in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon University and her M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology from Free University Amsterdam (The Netherlands).