Ludmila Matysková obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree (with First-Class Honours) in Economics at the Charles University (the Czech Republic) in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She then obtained MA and PhD in Economics at the Center for Economics Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) at the Charles University in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Ludmila was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Microeconomics at the University of Bonn (Germany) in the years 2018-2022. Since 2022, Ludmila has been working at the University of Alicante as a full-time researcher (Investigadora Colaboradora Senior).

Ludmila was a visiting research scholar at Columbia University (USA) in 2016, at Nuffield College at University of Oxford (UK) in 2017, and at New York University (USA) in 2019. In recent years, Ludmila has given multiple invited talks at international universities (University of Zurich, University of Bern, Bocconi University, University of Edinburgh, Virginia Tech, University of Oxford, University of Bonn, University of St. Gallen, University of Liverpool Management School, Lancaster University Management School, Università Cattolica del Sacre Cuore, University of Bamberg, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Parisian Game Theory Seminar). She has presented her work at international conferences such as the European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory, the annual SAET conference, the World Congress of Game Theory, various meetings of Econometric Society, and others.

Ludmila’s main research areas are Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, and Behavioural Economics. She has published in Games and Economic Theory and Journal of Economic Theory (with 80 citations in Google Scholar).

With the outbreak of covid disease in 2020, Ludmila took a part in the IDEA anti Covid-19 initiative launched by the IDEA, a think-tank of the CERGE-EI in the Czech Republic. The main aim of the initiative has been to present recommendations (to the Czech government) based on economic research that can help mitigate the effects of the expected economic crisis on the Czech society. Ludmila was part of four studies (The simple economics of social distancing and the coronavirus; Overview of foreign testing practices: economic-statistical perspective; Serological tests for Covid-19 antibodies: What could they be good for?; Collecting personal data for smart tracing: How to encourage (and not discourage) participation).