Anastasia is a behavioral scientist who studies how humans make decisions across a range of domains, with a focus on financial decision making. Anastasia's work incorporates insights and research methodologies from behavioral economics, psychology and decision neuroscience. 

Since September 2022, Anastasia has been an Assistant Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris, where she teaches courses on behavioral science and cognitive neuroscience applied to management. She obtained her PhD in Social and Decision Neuroscience from the California Institute of Technology. Her work has been published in leading scientific journals, including PNAS and Management Science. 

Having started her career in asset management, Anastasia has over ten years of experience applying academic insights from decision science to real-world challenges in the financial industry. She has consulted some of the world's largest asset managers, leading the incorporation of behavioral science expertise into their investment and risk processes.