Faculty

The following faculty can provide additional information about opportunities for graduate study and research.

Amy W. Ando, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics . Research: conservation of species and habitat; motor vehicle regulation, fishery management, stormwater management, natural resource damage assessment. E-mail: amyando@illinois.edu

Kathy Baylis, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of California Berkeley), Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics . Research: effects of agri-environmental policies. E-mail: baylis@illinois.edu 

John B. Braden, Professor (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison). Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics . Research: Environmental policy, water quality and pricing, benefits estimation, pollution markets. E-mail: jbb@illinois.edu

Nicholas Brozović, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of California Berkeley). Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics . Research: Environmental and resource economics and policy. Email: nbroz@illinois.edu

Richard J. Brazee, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan). Depts. of Natural Resource and Environmental Sciences and Agricultural and Consumer Economics . Research: Forest resource policy, optimal forest harvesting, dynamic natural resource modeling. E-mail: brazee@illinois.edu

Ximing Cai, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Research: application of systems techniques and economic principles to water resources and environmental management and planning problems such as drought management, ecosystem restoration, and water resources policy . E-mail: xmcai@illinois.edu

George Deltas, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Yale University). Dept. of Economics . Research: Competitive bidding for natural resources, design and performance of pollution market permits, linking of firm strategies in pollution and output markets, and use of discrete choice models to estimate recreational and amenity values. E-mail: deltas@illinois.edu

Don Fullerton, Professor (Ph.D. University of California Berkeley). Dept. of Finance . Research: computable general equilibrium models, household disposal of garbage and recycling, policies for green design, the effects of the Superfund clean-up program, vehicle emission control policies, and other second-best policies where direct environmental taxes are not feasible. . E-mail: dfullert@illinois.edu 

Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Professor (Ph.D. University of Washington) Dept. of Geography . Research: Urban and regional economic analysis with a focus on the design, implementation and application of regional economic models. E-mail: hewings@illinois.edu

Bruce Hannon, Professor (Ph.D. University of Illinois). Dept. of Geography . Research: Dynamic natural resource models, theories of scarcity. E-mail: b-hannon @illinois.edu

Atul Jain, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India). D epartment of Atmospheric Sciences . Research: G lobal carbon cycle and its relation to global climate change; ocean general circulations, terrestrial ecosystems, and land cover and land use changes; numerical models of physical and biogeochemical processes. E-mail: jain@atmos.illinois.edu .

Madhu Khanna, Professor (Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley). Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics . Research: Environmental regulation, technology adoption, pollution prevention, bioenergy, economic growth and the environment. E-mail: khanna1@illinois.edu

Hayri Onal, Professor (Ph.D. Middle East Technical University). Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics . Research: Resource and agricultural policy analysis, optimization methods in operations research. E-mail: h-onal@illinois.edu

Thomas S. Ulen, Swanlund Chair. Director of Illinois Program in Law and Economics (Ph.D. Stanford University). College of Law and Institute for Government and Public Affairs . Research: Economic analysis of law, hazardous waste policy. E-mail: tulen@law.illinois.edu

Alex Winter-Nelson, Professor (Ph.D. Stanford University). Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Center for African Studies . Research: Environmental impacts of development policies, animal disease. E-mail: alexwn@illinois.edu