Prof. Dan Zhu is a Professor in the
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. She
holds a Ph.D. in Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Science from the Economics
Department at the University of Melbourne. Prof. Dan Zhu’s research interests
include numerical methods for sensitivity analysis, financial mathematics,
optimization of stochastic dynamical systems, and Bayesian analysis.
Prof. Liana Jacobi is Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne.
Her main
research areas are theoretical and applied Bayesian Econometrics, in particular
in the context of Empirical Health Economics and Empirical Labour Economics. In
2017 she was awarded a Future Fellowship of the Australia Research Council
(2018–2021). She is the co-founder and co-director of the Bayesian Analysis and Modelling
Research Group (BAM). She is also a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Study of Labour, Bonn, Germany since 2008. Prof. Jacobi obtained her M.Sc. in Economics and Business from Otto Friedrich Universitaet Bamberg in 1997, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000 and 2005, respectively. She joined the University of Melbourne as lecturer in 2006, Senior Lecturer (2010–2016) and Associate Professor (2017-2022).
