About / Contact

I’m an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne (AU). Before joining the University of Melbourne in 2016 as a Senior Lecturer, I was a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews (UK). I obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Maastricht (EU) in 2011, advised by Bettina Klaus. Before that, I completed a Research Master (DEA) in Financial Markets and Derivative Products at Toulouse School of Economics (EU), advised by Jean-Charles Rochet.

Current appointments:

Jan 2021 - : Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
Jan 2025 - : Program Director, Master of Economics, University of Melbourne
Aug 2018 - : Deputy Director, Centre for Market Design

Selected fellowships/awards/visiting_positions:

2023 Oct-Dec: Research Member, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) at Berkeley (US)
2017 - 2023: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (AU)
2014 - 2016: Marie Curie Fellow (EU)
2014 - 2015: Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford (US) —hosted by Al Roth.

Seminars:

Please check out the recordings of the international and local microeconomic theory seminars that I co-founded and then helped co-organize for two years at www.amets.net and www.aletseminars.net.

Research interests:

market design (generalized matchings markets with transfers),
simple market-clearing mechanisms and their normative properties (e.g., characterizations of auction-like or serial dictatorship mechanisms),
game theoretical aspects of social networks (including rankings),
health economics,
transportation economics,
experimental economics.

Contact:

111 Barry Street, 
Economics Department, University of Melbourne,
Carlton, 3053, Victoria, Australia
(room 449)

Email:
nichifor {at} unimelb {dot} edu {dot} au