About
Ingela Alger is a CNRS Senior Scientist (DR1) at the Toulouse School of Economics. Her research, which has been published in journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, focuses on the evolutionary foundations of human preferences, when these are transmitted from generation to generation and are subject to selection. She is particularly interested in the evolutionary foundations of morality and distributional preferences, as well as preferences guiding family-related behaviors. Alger has been awarded numerous grants, notably the ANR Chaire d’Excellence 2012–2017, and the ERC Advanced Grant 2019–2023. In 2022, she was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal. Since 2012, she has been heavily invested in the development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), first as Biology program director (2012–2020), then as Scientific Director (2020–2021), and finally as Director (2021–2024). She also led the creation of the Department in Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2023.