Aiko Schmeißer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin). His research intersects the fields of Labor Economics, Political Economy, and Behavioral Economics, with a particular interest in the role of preferences and beliefs in labor market contexts. Before joining RFBerlin, Aiko was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Political Economy, Columbia University. He received his PhD in Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and University of Potsdam in 2025 and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard University, in 2024.