Employment
Sep. 2022-present: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Schoool of Economics, University of Kent.
Sep. 2010–Aug. 2022: Lecturer (Assistant Professor, with tenure), Department of Economics, University of Southampton.
Other appointments:
2019-2022: External Examiner, Postgraduate Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.
2020-2023: External Examiner, Postgraduate Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Essex.
2016-present: Editor, RMS: Research in Mathematics (formerly known as “Cogent: Economics & Statistics”).
Education:
2011: PhD Economics, Department of Economics, University of Essex.
Dissertation title: Jackknife Estimation and Inference in Non-stationary Autoregression. (Pass with no corrections).
2006: MSc Economics and Econometrics, University of Essex (with Distinction).2005: BSc Economics, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus.
Research Interests:
Spatial Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Simulation Methods; Applied Econometrics.
Awards and Research Grants:
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant `(Principal Investigator; 9991GBP), 2023-2025.
R&I Seed Fund, HSS, University of Kent, November 2022.
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant `Modelling Socio-economic Networks by Novel Spatial Econometric Models’ (Principal Investigator; 9920GBP), 2017-2019.
Midwest Econometrics Group, Mentoring Workshop Travel Grant, University of Indiana, 1000USD, 2013.
Royal Economic Society Conference Grant, 2013.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Economics, University of Essex, 2010.
Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, Granted by the Bank of Cyprus, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, 2005.
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Dr. Maria Kyriacou 