Education

Jan. 1985   Master of Science (Mathematics), University of Vienna.

June 1987   Ph.D. sub auspiciis praesidentis (Mathematics). University of Vienna.

Positions

Nov. 1985-July 1990  Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna.

Sep. 1987-Sep. 1989 Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Dec. 1989-Apr. 1990 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Aug. 1990-July 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

August 1995-July 2001: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

August 2001: Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professional Honors and Grants:

Economic Theory Fellow awarded by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), July 2011.

E. Schrödinger Research Scholarship (Fall 1987-Fall 1989).

BEBR Summer Research Grant, University of Illinois 1990, 1991.

Educational Technology Board Grant, 1999.

Research Board Grant 2001/2002.

NSF Grant SES-0318394 (with Anne Villamil), $230,459 2003-2006.

NCSA, Grant SES050001, (with Anne Villamil) 2004-2007

ICHAA, Computational Grant (with Anne Villamil and Jamsheed Shorish) 2009-2010

NSF Grant SES-1261016 (with M. Polborn), $365,914 2013-2016

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students:
Econ 590: Spring 2015
Econ 533: Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022
Econ 500: Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Fall 2021,
Econ 410: Spring 1994,

EGSO Teaching Award, 2014/2015 (for Econ 590, Computational Methods in Economics)

Editorial Boards:

Economic Theory 1994-2001, 2005-2019.

Economic Theory Bulletin 2012-2019.

Journal of Public Economic Theory, since 2016.

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, since 2022.

Service:

Department

Faculty Director of the Ph.D. Program: 2017--
Graduate Admissions Chair: 2014--
Recruiting Comittee 2002--2003, 2004-2005, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2020-2021
Awards Committee: 2017--
Department By-laws committee Chair: 2020-2021
MSPE review committee Chair: 2021-2022

College:

College Executive Committee 2021-2023
Faculty Appeals Committee 2019-2020
Curriculum and Courses Committee 2007-2009
Library Committee 2001--2003
CBA Teaching Advancement Board 2002-2003