Axel Ockenfels, professor at the University of Cologne, will become a new director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn in August 2023. He will establish a new department there, to be called “Economic Design & Behavior”. Its aim will be to design market, incentive, and decision architectures, based on modern behavioral research. Prof. Dr. Ockenfels will thus complement the departments of Prof. Dr. Matthias Sutter and Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel at the institute, which focus on behavioral research from an economic and legal perspective. He will continue to teach and conduct research at the University of Cologne.