Microeconomist Utku Ünver has been promoted to Professor. Ünver joined the BC faculty in 2008 as an Associate Professor from the University of Pittsburgh, where he served since 2005. He completed the Ph.D. at Pittsburgh in 2000 and taught for five years at Koç University in Turkey. His interests lie in microeconomic theory, particularly game theory, market and mechanism design, and social choice. His wide-ranging publications have appeared in Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and New England Journal of Medicine. His work on kidney exchange, some of it coauthored by Prof. Tayfun Sönmez has been widely cited and supported by the National Science Foundation.
Our congratulations to Prof. Ünver!
31 August 2011