Jaromir Kovarik is an Assistant Professor in the Foundations of Economic Analysis I of the University of the Basque Country and member of the Bilbao Research in Decisions, Games, and Economics (BRiDGE) group in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. He is am also affiliated with the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, Czech Republic. He holds a Ph.D. from the Economics Department of the University of Alicante, Spain.

He is a member of the Behavioral Economics Lab, an economic consulting group focused on the applications of insights from Behavioural and Experimental Economics in understanding real-world problems.

His main research interests are social norms, social preferences, and social networks, and their dynamics. His research is both theoretical and empirical and often uses experiments, real-life data, theoretical models, and occasionally computer simulations.

The topics of his research lie on the border of various behavioral disciplines such as economics, psychology, biology, and sociology. This determines the methodologies he uses in his research: (behavioral and evolutionary) game theory, agent-based modeling, and experimental economics. Currently, he extensively works on social networks, the effect of external shocks on social organization, and several projects associating human behavior to biological characteristics.