Avik Basu lectures at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. He's interested in designing environments that simultaneously enhance individual and communal well-being. His research focuses on understanding the differences between experts and laypeople in environmental decision-making. Over the last decade, he has been part of a collaborative effort to develop a framework, known as the Reasonable Person Model (RPM), to help practitioners from various disciplines become better at creating conditions that improve human well-being.