This is our first post, and we thought it best to start off with some details about comings and goings amongst the CERGE-EI faculty/researcher community.
Fabio Michelucci joins the CERGE-EI faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Fall ‘09 semester. Fabio earned his Ph.D. in economics at University College London in 2007, and then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology. His research focus is on auction theory.
At the same time, Michal Pakoš has joined CERGE-EI as a Senior Researcher, specializing in asset pricing models. Michal received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and later worked as an Assistant Professor at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
We mentioned comings and goings, and unfortunately it’s now time to talk about colleagues who are leaving CERGE-EI, namely Junghun Cho and Andreas Ortmann. Andreas has been with CERGE-EI since 2000 and will move to Sydney, Australia, where he has been appointed professor for experimental and behavioral economics at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. Junghun has been a devoted micro theory and teacher for the past three years but is heading for a new life in a private sector position in Seoul. We wish both of them the best in their future endeavors!