Keywords: career, work-life balance, decision fatigue 

Tune in to our chat with Simone, where she tells us about her career path, thoughts on work-life balance, and offers candid advice to graduate students on the importance of finding focus. Simone is an Experimental Social Psychologist at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a fellow at Jesus College. In this episode, we also discuss one of her recent papers, Quantifying the Cost of Decision Fatigue: Supoptimal Risk Decisions in Finance, with Dr. Tobias Baer on decision fatigue applied to the finance sector, specifically how credit loan officers decide on loan applications. If you're interested in the decision-making literature and cognitive load, do check it out!