collaborators & graduate advisees

None of my research would be possible without the help of my graduate students and my collaborators in other departments, disciplines and institutions. Thank you all!

Graduate Students who have worked in the Gramig "lab"

Former students, UIUC 2017-2025

Menglin Liu (Ph.D.), 2019-present. Doctoral committee member and 2024-25 job market reference.
Academic advisor through Second Year paper requirement (2022).

Hsin-Chieh Hsieh (Ph.D.), 2018-2024. Three essays on water quality policy and conservation practice evaluation. [link]

Seojeong Oh (Ph.D.), 2018-2023. Three essays on water quality policy and valuation. [link]
Placement: Ministry of Economy & Finance, South Korea. Current: Asst. Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

Chang Cai (Ph.D), 2020-2022. Essays on heterogeneity in outdoor recreation demand and climate change's impact on agriculture. [link]
Placement: Analyst, Otak, Colorado, USA. Current: Verisk, New Jersey, USA.

Former post-doc, University of Illinois

Bowen Chen, Ph.D. 2019-2020. Analysis of the impact of USDA-NRCS conservation practices on on-farm benefits using USDA-ERS ARMS data.
Placement (9/2020): Data scientist (trade economics), Bunge [www]

Former students, Purdue University 2008-2017

Xiaoyang He (Ph.D.), 2016-2017 . Research assistant working on travel cost model of southern Lake Michigan anglers in Illinois and Indiana.

Molly Van Dop  Sears (M.S.), 2014-2016. Irrigation adoption, groundwater demand and policy in the U.S. Corn Belt, 2040-2070 [e-thesis].
Placement: PhD program, University of California-Berkeley, Ag and Resource Economics.
Current: Faculty, Michigan State University [link]

Seong do Yun (Ph.D.),  2011-2015. Co-advised by Raymond Florax. Economic dynamics of movement: Environmental changes and spatial spillover. [e-dissertation].
Placement: Post-doc, School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Yale University.
Current: Faculty, Mississippi State University [link]

Sajeev E.M. (M.S.), 2009-2011 Ecological Science & Engineering and 2012-2014 Ag Economics. Profit-Maximizing Responses To Climate Change In Commodity Agriculture: Does Adaptation Matter? [e-thesis]
Placement: PhD program, University of Graz, Austria. [link]

Shanxia Sun (Ph.D.) Modeling nitrogen fertilizer-soil-climate outcomes in maize-based cropping systems, 2014. [link]

Mengbo Wang (non-thesis M.S.), 2013-2014. Cost-effectiveness of alternative nitrogen reduction strategies in Henan Province, China. Placement: Smithfield Foods, VA, USA. 

Jingyu Song (M.S.), 2012-2013. A Spatially Explicit Watershed Scale Optimization of Cellulosic Biofuels Production. Placement: PhD program, Purdue Ag Econ.  [link]

Tianyun (Helen) Ji (M.S.), 2010-2012. The Economics of Cellulosic Biofuels: Farm to Fuel Cost Analysis of the Supply Chain. Placement: AGCO-China.  [link]

Carson Reeling (M.S.), 2009-11. Using Carbon Offsets to Fund Agricultural Conservation Practices in a Working-Lands Setting.
Placement: PhD program, Michigan State University.  Current: Faculty, Purdue University [link]

Jessa Becker Barnard (M.S.), 2009-11. An empirical analysis of climate change perceptions and conservation tillage practices of Indiana farmers. Placement: Adayana, Inc.  [link]

Monique Fahie (M.S.), 2008-10. Cap-and-Trade Policy: The Influence on Investments in CO2 Reducing Technologies in Indiana. Placement: USDA-NRCS . 

Photos of a few of my research teams

[Last Updated 9/2020]