Department of Economics
Our academic staff
Discover the academic staff in the Department of Economics
Our academic staff hold various posts within the Department of Economics. They deliver excellence in the teaching of our modules and conduct research in a wide range of specialisms.
To visit an individual member of staff's academic profile and view their contact details, please click on the links below:
Academic members of staff
Dr Lukas Altermatt
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor Rossella Argenziano
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Microeconomic Theory; Game Theory; Industrial Organization; Decision Theory
Roy Bailey
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Thomas Brzustowski
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor Carlos Carrillo Tudela
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Economics
Research interests:
Labour Economics; Search and Matching Theory; Macroeconomics; Quantitative Economics
Professor Marcus Chambers
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
time series econometrics; continuous time models and issues of temporal aggregation; mixed frequency data; frequency domain methods of estimation and inference
Professor Melvyn Coles
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Equilibrium trade with frictions, especially labour; Marriage markets
Professor Thomas Cornelissen
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Labour economics; Economics of education; Family and health economics
Dr Ahrash Dianat
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioural Economics; Experimental Economics
Dr Emma Duchini
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Labour Economics, Personnel Economics, Economics of Education
Dr Albin Erlanson
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Ben Etheridge
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Life-cycle consumption, saving and labour supply; Earnings/Income dynamics; Inequality: Supply and demand of workplace skills; Inequality: Belief heterogeneity and information acquisition; Household formation over the lifecycle; Inequality: The role of housing
Professor Marco Francesconi
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Labour economics; Family economics
Dr Mikhail Freer
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Daniel Friedman
Professor, Department of Economics
Professor Jayant Ganguli
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Economic theory; Finance and banking; Behavioural economics
Professor Daniel Garrett
Professor, Department of Economics
Professor Christian Ghiglino
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Economics of Networks; Monetary and Fiscal Policy; Economic Fluctuations; Economic Growth
Professor Piero Gottardi
Professor, Department of Economics
Professor Abhimanyu Gupta
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Econometric Theory; Spatial Econometrics; Applied Econometrics; Statistical Theory
Evgeny Iakovlev
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Lingqing Jiang
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioral Economics; Experimental Economics
Dr Shin Kanaya
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor William Kennedy
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Elif Kubilay
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Aditya Kuvalekar
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor Sheri Markose
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Financial Networks, Contagion and Systemic Risk Modelling; Modelling Extreme Market Events using Generalized Extreme Value Distribution (Option Pricing, Extreme Value at Risk and Forecasting Volatility); Computational Simulators for Market and Policy Design with Special Interest in Controlling Negative Externalities (Levrage, Congestion, Carbon); Cashlessness from E- Payments and Control of Inflation; Strategic Innovation, Red Queen Arms Race and Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems; Godel Incompleteness and Cognitive Incompleteness
Lukas Mayr
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor Friederike Mengel
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
(Evolutionary) Game Theory; Learning and Categorization; Models of (Bounded) Rationality; Social Networks; Behavioural and Experimental Economics; Family and health economics
Dr Andreas Mueller
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Public Finance; Macroeconomic Political Economy; Economic Growth and Macroeconomic Development; International Macroeonomics
Dr Evelyn Nunes
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Aseem Patel
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Valerio Pieroni
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Victor Pouliquen
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Nicholas Reynolds
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor Katharine Rockett
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Economics of new technologies, especially patents and licensing
Dr Michele Rosenberg
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Neslihan Sakarya
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Francesca Salvati
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Christoph Siemroth
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioral Economics; Financial Economics; Experimental Economics; Organizational Economics
Dr Lucas Siga
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor Eric Smith
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Search and matching in employment, housing and related markets; Labour economics; Human capital accumulation and the distribution of income; Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy
Dr Lisa Spantig
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioral Economics; Development Economics; Experimental Economics
Professor Bruno Sultanum
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Macroeconomics; Search and Matching; Financial Economics; International Finance
Dr George Symeonidis
Reader, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Applied Microeconomics; Applied Industrial Economics
Shunsuke Tsuda
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Development Economics; Environmental Economics; Spatial Economics; Political Economy
Dr Catherine Van Der List
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Dennie Van Dolder
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Professor Gianluigi Vernasca
Professor, Department of Economics
Dr Tianxi Wang
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Contract theory and its applications; The organisation of financial markets; Money and banking
Dr Yikai Wang
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr Elke Weidenholzer
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Lecturer., Department of Economics
Professor Simon Weidenholzer
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioural Economics; Industrial Organisation; Evolutionary Game Theory
Dr Xiaoyu Xia
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Dr David Zentler-Munro
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Visiting members of staff
Ozgul Bilici
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Dr Mohsen Eshraghi
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Financial Economics; Networks in Economics; Applied Economics; Macroeconomics
Dr Goher Fatima
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Dr Mahmoud Fatouh
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Dr Ran Gu
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Labour Economics; Search and Matching
Dr Priyanka Joshi
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Research Interests
Dr Nikhil Masters
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Dr Arsham Reisinezhad
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Dr Liang Shi
Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Prof Daniela Sonedda
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Dr Kai Zhang
Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics
Honorary members of staff
Contact us
Department of Economics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone:
01206 872728
