RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Applied Economics, Industrial Organisation, Energy Economics

TEACHING EXPERTISE

International Economics, Industrial Organisation, Microeconomics

Taught in three different universities in Australia at the undergraduate and graduate levels both within Business, Economics, and Accounting Finance degrees; taught 14 different units in 3 different campuses. Served as the Course Director for our Masters Program.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Tasmania, Australia

EMPLOYMENT

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

·   Adjunct Research Associate, Centre for Research in Applied Economics, Curtin University of Technology.

·   Curtin University of Technology, Australia

·   National Central University, Taiwan

·       Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, OECD, Paris

·       Centre for Competition Policy, Norwich, U.K.

·   Research Fellow, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Australian National University

·       Research Fellow, Curtin University of Technology

·   Research Scholar, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

OTHER Professional Affiliations

·       Convenor, South Asia Research Program within the Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Monash University

·       Council Member, Economic Society, Victoria Branch

Editorial board affiliations and Related Responsibilities

·   Asia Pacific Law and Economics Review, Editorial Board, 2007-2011

·   International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2017-

·   International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2017-

·   Foreign Trade Review, 2020-

·   Regular reviewers of Journal articles, examiners of PhD and Masters theses and Grant applications.

 Services to the Department/Faculty/University

·                 Elected Member, ‘Department Staff Selection Panel

          Introduced a third-year elective unit ECX3900 Business Economics; Masters level unit, ECF5040 Industry Economics

·                 Co-convenor of Economics/COPS Seminar Program

·                 Academic Board

·                 Women mentoring program-acted as a mentor, mentee, University level

·                 Academic referee of undergraduate and postgraduate students

·                 Member of the Annual Conference of the ABERU

·                 Member of the Department Review Committee

·                 Member of Department Research Committee

·                 Member, Department Teaching Committee

·                 Representative-Board of Examiners

·                 AOL –Department Education Committee

·                 Course Advisory Committee, Masters of International Business

·                 Course Director - Master of Applied Economics/Econometrics

·                 Academic Progress Committee (currently Academic Review Committee)

·                 Department representative - ‘University Open Day’

·                 Faculty representative - ‘University Open Day Committee’

·                 Alternate member, ‘Faculty Board’

·                 Equity and Diversity Committee

·                 Elected Member, ‘Outside Studies Program Committee’, Faculty of Business and Economics

·                 EQUIS Review Committee

·                 Academic Progress Committee

·                 Disciplinary Action Committee

·                 Department Education Committee

·                 Research Committee

EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS

·             Australian Research Council- Discovery Project, DP0343599

·             Doshisha University Research Grant, Kyoto, Japan (with A/P Ryoji Takehiro)

·             National Science Council- Social Science Project (with Prof Jong-rong Chen)- This is the National Grant body in Taiwan, 2006-2007 - NSC 95-2415-H-008-004

·             Tyre Stewardship Australia, (with Engineering Faculty)

·             Interdisciplinary grant for energy project with Engineering and Business Faculty.

Research supervision

Completed – 5 Ph.D., 5 MS, 16 Honours

Current – 3

PUBLICATIONS – See Research  Page

Edited book – 1

Book chapters – 10

Research reports – 1

Refereed journal papers – 63

Refereed conference papers – 3

OECD Consulting report-1

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=VTukFXIAAAAJ&hl=en

Highlights of my achievements and contributions include:

•       On energy economics, my paper published in Applied Energy examining the effect of renewable resource use on economic growth for the top-38 countries has attracted highest citations. This is the second most-cited paper in this journal and one of the top 1% most-cited papers within this academic field (2017 Clarivate Analytics Report).

•       Department teaching awards, 2 times