Thomas A. Weber is Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Managerial Science and Applied Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas has previously worked at Stanford University and is an author of many highly ranked and well-cited publications in the areas of economics, decision science, and management. He is also an author of the book “Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics”.