E. Purkyně Fellowship from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, which will allow him to return to CERGE-EI as tenured faculty member in 2012. After completing his PhD at CERGE-EI in 2006, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh until 2009. His research interests, which lie within game theory and economic theory, are focused on studying behavior in strategic situations with a possibility of self-fulfilling prophecies, such as those arising during currency attacks, bank runs, revolutions, etc. Before his postgraduate studies, Jakub worked as a social worker for a Roma community and since then has been interested in the economics of discrimination.