Florian Englmaier is Professor of Organizational Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich. Englmaier spent some years as a visiting scholar at various prestigious institutions, such as the University College London, Stanford University, and Harvard Business School.

Englmaier’s primary research interests are in organizational economics, industrial organization, and contract theory. For this research he was named Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the Organizations Research Group, funded by the LMU’s excellence fund. Englmaier investigates the nature of relationships and contracts between employers and workers, and how this may be influenced by a worker’s ‘trustworthiness’.