Expert Details
Agricultural Economics
ID: 735451
Texas, USA
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2005 | Degree: Doctorate | Subject: Agricultural Economics | Institution: University of Florida |
| Year: 2002 | Degree: M.S. | Subject: Agricultural Economics, Marketing, Quantitative Methods | Institution: University of Florida |
| Year: 1999 | Degree: Associate | Subject: General Agriculture | Institution: Pan American School of Agriculture, El Zamorano, Honduras |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2006 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Professor | Department: Agricultural Economics |
Responsibilities:Expert serves as the Director of the Human Behavior Laboratory and conduct applied research and outreach projects related to marketing, consumer preferences and behavior, management and economics of the food industry.Expert has established himself as a leading horticulture-marketing economist in the United States and International. Expert's activities have resulted in nearly 300 invited presentations all around the world. In addition, Expert is becoming one of the leading professionals incorporating neurophysiological measures to conventional models of decision making. He is the founder and director of the Human Behavioral Laboratory, one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world. With over $24 million in funding to conduct applied research and outreach efforts, Expert's activities touch the lives of people in the State of Texas, the United States and all over the world. Expert is ranked in the database Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) out of over 50,000 authors in economics, in the top 10% for number of distinct works, top 15% in the number of article downloads through RePEc, top 6% in strength of students. According to Google Scholar, Expert's papers have been cited 400 times, most of which (358) have been within the last five years (since 2012). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2006 | Employer: Horticultural Marketing | Title: Visiting Faculty, Agro- Food Marketing | Department: |
Responsibilities:Class instruction for the Master's Program in Agri-Food Marketing. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2006 | Employer: Santa Fe Community College | Title: Adjunct Faculty | Department: |
Responsibilities:Principles of Microeconomic class instruction. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2002 to 2002 | Employer: University of Florida | Title: Teacher Assistant/ Co Intructor | Department: |
Responsibilities:Laboratory Instructor for course Economics Issues, Food and You. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2001 to 2005 | Employer: University of Florida | Title: Graduate Research Assistant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Conduct applied research in agricultural economics. |
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Career Accomplishments
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| Service Activities: 65 in total (break down below) National/ Regional: 39 University/ COALS: 13 Departmental: 13 |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Professional honors and awards: 16 |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Publications and presentations: 215 in total (breakdown below) Journal Refereed: 62 Presented papers (professional meetings): 85 Organized symposia: 15 Books/ Handbooks: 5 Book Chapters: 5 Proceedings: 7 Other publications: 36 Expert is often called to serve as research peer reviewer for various journals for his expertise in marketing, consumer preferences for food products, discrete choice methods, and experimental and behavioral economics. He has been a reviewer of numerous articles in several peer reviewed journals, including Management Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economics, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Agribusiness an International Journal, The Energy Journal, Contemporary Economic Policy, Texas Journal of Agricultural and Natural Resources, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, HortScience, HortTechnology, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Choices, Aquaculture Economics and Management and International Regional Science Review. He has also been a selected papers reviewer for the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and the Southern Agricultural Economics Association. Expert has served as a grant proposal reviewer in several programs, including Federal and State Improvement Program, Horticulture Research Institute, Small Business Information Research, Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants. |