CMSS Roles & Membership

Co-Directors: Simona Fabrizi (Department of Economics, UOA) and Arkadii Slinko (Department of Mathematics, UOA)

Management Group: Steven Galbraith (Department of Mathematics, UOA) and Steffen Lippert (Department of Economics, UOA)

Website Editor & Seminar Coordinator – Simona Fabrizi

 

ALL MEMBERS

• Quentin Atkinson Professor (Department of Psychology, UOA)
• Jiling Cao Professor of Mathematics (Department of Mathematical Sciences, AUT)
• Diego Carrasco Novoa Lecturer (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Alexandre Dmitriev Senior Lecturer (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Chanelle Duley Lecturer (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Simona Fabrizi Senior Lecturer (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Prasanna Gai Professor (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Patrick Girard Senior Lecturer (Department of Philosophy, UOA)
• John Hillas Associate Professor (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Lisa Hillas Lecturer (Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, UoA)
• Steffen Lippert Associate Professor (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Jiamou Liu Senior Lecturer (Department of Computer Science, UOA)
• Robert MacCulloch Professor (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Dion O’Neale Senior Lecturer (Department of Physics, UOA)
• Addison Pan International Networks Manager (International Office, UOA)
• Thomas Pfeiffer Professor of Computational Biology (New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study, Massey University)
• Geoffrey Pritchard Senior Lecturer (Department of Statistics, UOA)
• Matthew Ryan Professor (School of Economics, AUT)
• Erwann Sbai Senior Lecturer (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Jeremy Seligman Senior Lecturer (Department of Philosophy, UOA)
• Arkadii Slinko Professor (Department of Mathematics, UOA)
• Suzanne Woodward Associate Director Research Impact, Knowledge Translation Specialist (Public Policy Institute, UOA)
• Fan Zhang Post-Doc Fellow (Department of Economics, UOA)

Current research students

• • Michael Demetrius (PhD, S. Fabrizi, S. Lippert and M. Russell, UOA, since 1 Dec 2024)
  • Yuanyuan Li (PhD, S. Fabrizi, S. Lippert and P. Gai, UOA, since 1 Dec 2024)
  • Yibin Li (PhD, S. Fabrizi, J. Hillas and S. Lippert, UOA, since May 2023)
  • Yunjie Shi (PhD, S. Fabrizi, S. Lippert and R. MacCulloch, UOA, since Oct 2022)
  • Doriani Lingga (PhD, S. Fabrizi and S. Lippert, UOA, since Aug 2021)
  • Xinyan Zhang (PhD, S. Fabrizi and S. Lippert, UOA, since Aug 2020)
  • Jenny Long (PhD, Q. Atkinson, UOA)
  • Songbao Mo (Honours, A. Slinko, UOA)
  • Isabella McAllister (PhD, Patrick Girard, UOA)
  • Sergey Ozernikov (PhD, A. Slinko, UOA)
  • Zhu Rui (PhD, J. Seligman, UOA)
  • Catriona Sissions (PhD, D. O’Neale, UOA)
  • Ziheng Wei (PhD, J. Liu, UOA)
  • Shaun White (PhD, P. Girard, UOA)
  • Liang Zhen (PhD, J. Seligman, UOA)

Former research students (in reverse chronological order)

• • Rae Rho (PhD, S. Fabrizi, S. Lippert and B. Sharp, UOA, 2024). Senior Economist at the New Zealand Commerce Commission
  • Danny Kwon (PhD, S. Fabrizi and S. Lippert, UOA, 2024). Economist at Ernst & Young
  • Michael Demetrius (Master, S. Fabrizi, UOA)
  • Herbert Wu (Master, S. Fabrizi and A. Pan, UOA, 2024)
  • Maggie Zhang (Master, S. Fabrizi and Lydia Cheung, UOA, 2023)
  • James Brown (Honours, S. Fabrizi, UOA, 2023)
  • Chanelle Duley (PhD, P. Gai and S. Lippert, UOA, 2023). Lecturer in Economics, UOA.
  • Stan Wang (PhD, T. Pfeiffer and S. Schmeier, Massey University; J. Nijsse, AUT, 2022)
  • Pansye Elkashef (PhD, T. Pfeiffer, and J. Matthewson, Massey University; A. Chaudhuri, UOA, 2021)
  • Adrian Ortiz-Cervantes (PhD, Dion O’Neale, UOA, 2022). Senior Analyst at the Financial Market Authority.
  • Michael Gordon (PhD, T. Pfeiffer and A. Smith, Massey University)
  • Demival Vasques Filho (PhD, D. O’Neale, UOA, 2020). Research Associate, Leibniz Institute of European History
  • Yen Ling Tan (Honours, S. Fabrizi, UOA, 2019). Started her PhD in Economics at the University of Virginia (2020 intake) with full scholarship
  • Rae Rho (Master of Arts (Economics, UOA, 2019), S. Fabrizi, S. Lippert, 2019)
  • Yan Kolezhitskiy (Honours, A. Slinko, UOA)
  • Samin Aref (PhD, M. Wilson, UOA, 2019, now at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany)
  • Jiangheng (Leo) Lin (Honours, S. Fabrizi, 2018). Started his PhD in Economics at Washington University in St Louis (2019 intake) with full scholarship
  • Antonia Chen (PhD, M. Ryan and E. Sbai, UOA, 2018)
  • Nina Anchugina (PhD, M. Ryan and S. Galbraith, UOA, 2017)
  • Anastasia Moskvina (PhD, J. Liu, 2017, AUT)
  • Addison (Siwen) Pan (PhD, S. Fabrizi, T. Pfeiffer and M. Ryan, 2016, Massey University)
  • Ali Hameed (PhD, A. Slinko, UOA, 2013)
  • Reyhaneh Reyhani (PhD, M. Wilson, UOA, 2013, then working in the USA)
  • Tatiana Gvozdeva (PhD, A. Slinko, UOA, 2012, then a postdoc in Singapore)
  • Egor Ianovski (BSc(Hons), M. Wilson, UOA, 2012, then PhD 2016, University of Oxford)
  • John C. McCabe Dansted (MSc, A. Slinko, UOA, 2006, then PhD, University of Western Australia)