Dr Nandini Anant

Dr Nandini Anant is a researcher working to better understand why humans engage in risk-taking behaviour across domains such as financial risk, health-related risk, recreational risk, social risk, etc. Questions she would like to answer include "Why does someone drive without a seatbelt on?" Her expertise includes research design and management, survey implementation and data gathering, and data analysis and interpretation. Dr Anant enjoys devising new solutions to old theoretical problems and searching for simple, generalizable answers to broadly relevant issues in today's world. Her specific fields of interest include social sciences, population health research, risk-taking behaviour and risk analysis.

Watch the video to find out what motivates her to specialise in risk-taking behaviour as her research topic. She also explains what is 'range anxiety', using the mobile phone device that we use daily as an example.