Employee Type Archives: Faculty

Paul Gregg is an Executive in Residence and senior instructor at the University of Central Florida. Since joining UCF in 2002, over 17,000 students from all majors have taken his Personal Finance & Investments class. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate level corporate finance classes. Between 2015 and 2017, he served as the interim chair […]

My name is Tarek Buhagiar and I moved to Florida in 1990. I have been teaching at UCF since January 1998 and have loved every minute of it. UCF is a great institution that is constantly growing and changing. I have a Bachelor in Finance, a Master in Economics and a Graduate Certificate in Statistics/Data Mining. […]

Richard Hofler is Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. His major research fields are econometrics and health economics. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Hofler has served as […]

My Teaching Philosophy I take teaching very seriously and for the most part, view teaching as important as research. I have high expectations of the students, which is generally something they haven’t encountered in their prior education.  I eschew grading on a curve, for I find a curve unpalatable inasmuch as any true curve, e.g., a […]

Department of Economics

Dr. Nora Underwood received her BA from George Washington University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. She was employed as a lecturer in the economics department at UC Davis for nine years before joining the Department of Economics at UCF in 2003. She most often teaches principles of macroeconomics, environmental economics, and […]

Eric Schmidbauer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2014 and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. His research interests include the economics of information, industrial organization and marketing. He principally teaches courses in microeconomics and game theory at […]

Dr. Melanie Guldi is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida in the College of Business. She is a native Floridian who received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a focus on Economics from the University of Florida in 1995. She then earned a Master of Arts in Economics from Michigan […]

Uluc Aysun is an applied and computational economist with current research interests in international economics, economic forecasting, data analytics, finance, economics of innovation, banking and monetary transmission. He has served for 3 years as an academic consultant for Bank of Jamaica and as the Undergraduate Director for the Department of Economics. Recent Publications: “R&D, Market […]

  Mark Dickie is a Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. His major fields are environmental economics and health economics. His research focuses on estimating economic benefits of reducing risks to human health; understanding how people perceive health risks; and examining the determinants and effects of behaviors that influence the […]