CMSS Roles & Membership

Co-Directors: Simona Fabrizi (Department of Economics, UOA) and Steven Galbraith (Department of Mathematics, UOA) – Founder and Former Co-Director was Arkadii Slinko (Department of Mathematics, UOA)

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

Website Editor: Simona Fabrizi (Department of Economics, UOA)

Seminar Coordinators: Simona Fabrizi and Steffen Lippert (Department of Economics, UOA) and Matthew Ryan (School of Economics, AUT

 

ALL MEMBERS

• Diego Carrasco Novoa 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)
• Steven Galbraith Professor (Department of Mathematics, 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)
• Robert MacCulloch Professor (Department of Economics, UOA)
• John Matthewson Senior Lecturer (School of Humanities Media and Creative Communication, Massey University)
• Greta Meggiorini Lecturer (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Addison Pan International Networks Manager (International Office, UOA)
• Thomas Pfeiffer Professor of Computational Biology (New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study, Massey University)
• Matthew Ryan Professor and CMSS Co-Founder (School of Economics, AUT)
• Erwann Sbai Senior Lecturer (Department of Economics, UOA)
• Suzanne Woodward Associate Director Research Impact, Knowledge Translation Specialist (Public Policy Institute, UOA)

Job Market Candidates (2025)

• • Xinyan Zhang (PhD in Economics, S. Fabrizi and S. Lippert, UOA, Completed March 2025). Thesis titled: “Three essays on ambiguity, adaptability, costly efforts for partnership under the New Normal’‘

• • Doriani Lingga (PhD in Economics, S. Fabrizi, S. Lippert and R. MacCulloch, UOA, PhD submission planned by July 2025) – Recipient of the Seamus Hogan Research Prize for the best Public Policy Paper written by a student and David Teece Prize in Industrial Organisation and Firm Behaviour, both awarded for her essay 2 titled “The News Media Bargaining Code: A Two-sided Market Framework”. Visit https://sites.google.com/view/doriani-lingga for more info about Doriani’s research and achievements. Thesis titled: “Essays on Optimal Taxation in a Digital World of Two-Sided Markets”

Current research students

• • Max Wilson (PhD, C. Duley and P. Gai, UoA, since 1 March 2025)
  • 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)
  • Joshua Greenwood (PhD, C. Duley and P. Gai, UOA, since 1 Dec 2023)
  • Xinyi (Cecilia) Zhao (PhD, C. Duley and P. Gai, UOA, since 1 Dec 2023)
  • Yueyan (Jojo) Zhou (PhD, G. Meggiorini, R. MacCulloch and D. Bandyopadhyay, UoA, since 1 Sept 2023)
  • Davide Papapicco (PhD, G. Donovan, L. Smith and M. Tawhai, UoA, since 1 Sep 2023).
  • 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, S. Lippert and R. MacCulloch, UOA, since Aug 2021)

Former research students (in reverse chronological order)

• • Xinyan Zhang (PhD, S. Fabrizi and S. Lippert, UOA, 2025)
  • Christian Newey (Master, S. Fabrizi and M. Ryan, UOA, 2025)
  • Scarlett Buissink (Summer Research Scholar, S. Fabrizi and A. Slinko, UOA 2024/2025)
  • 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, 2024)
  • 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)
  • Jenny Long (PhD, Q. Atkinson, UOA, 2015)
  • 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)
  • 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)