We are proud of our current PhD candidates on the job market in 2025-2026! Please direct job market questions to Dr. Sarah Janzen, Director of Graduate Student Placement.
Julian Diaz-Gutierrez
PhD Expected in 2026
Primary: Health Economics, Development Economics, Labor Economics. Secondary: Environmental Economics
Khashi Ghorbani
PhD Expected in 2026
Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics
Protensia Hadunka
PhD Expected in 2025
Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Development Economics
Shahadat Hossain
PhD Expected in 2026
International Development Economics, Labor and Household Economics, Applied Econometrics
Jingru Jia
PhD Expected in 2026
Computational Economics, Behavioral Machine Learning, Experimental and Development Economics
Chungmann Kim
PhD Expected in 2026
Development Economics, Data Science, Global Food Security & Nutrition
Saurav Raj Kunwar
PhD Expected in 2026
Agricultural Economics, Production Economics, Environmental Economics
Menglin Liu
PhD Expected in 2025
Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Gustavo Enrique Nino Chaparro
PhD Expected in 2026
Transportation and Supply-Chain Economics, Industrial Organization, Food & Agricultural Economics
Hyungsun Yim
PhD Expected in 2026
Environmental Economics, Network Econometrics, Agrifood Supply Chain
ACE Alumni on Job Market
If you are an alum actively on the job market, reach out to ace-grad@illinois.edu to be added to our list.
ACE Postdocs on Job Market
Guilherme Fonseca Travassos
PhD Completed in 2018
Developing economics, Consumer economics, Environmental economics