PEOPLE
Graduate Students
Oluwatosin (Tosin) Olofinsao, Research Assistant & Ph.D. Dissertation, Wang EconLab Spring 2021 - present (UNM Ph.D. student 2019-present)
Ben Cornelius, Research Assistant (as an industry intern) & M.A. Thesis, Wang EconLab, Spring 2022 - present (UNM M.A. student 2021-2023)
Margo Gustina, Research Assistant & Ph.D. Dissertation, Wang EconLab Spring 2023 - present (UNM Ph.D. student 2020-present)
Nahid Samimimotlagh, Research Assistant & Ph.D. Dissertation, Wang EconLab Fall 2023 - present (UNM Ph.D. student 2021-present)
Celeste Lucero, Master Student, Research Assistant, Wang EconLab Fall 2024- Spring 2025
Undergraduate Students
Alex Kaltenbach (UNM Class of 2025), Project Assistant, Wang EconLab Fall 2023 - present
Christina Klas (UNM Class of 2025), Science Communication Fellow & Project Assistant, Wang EconLab Spring 2023 - present
Research/Project Assistant positions available - please reach out!
If you have discovered that you like research, but don't know where to go next: HOW TO GET INTO A RESEARCH LAB AS AN UNDERGRAD (While it is written by UNM engineering staff, it is applicable across disciplines!)
Alumni
Graduate Students
Suraj Ghimire, Research Assistant & Ph.D. Dissertation, Wang EconLab Spring 2020 - Summer 2023 (UNM Ph.D. student 2018-2023), currently Instructor of Management at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. [Selected Publication with Wang EconLab]
Adam Schutt, Project Assistant, Wang EconLab 2021 (UNM M.A. student 2020-2021), currently Executive Team Leader of Specialty Sales at Target.
Mengqi (Mandy) Liu, Research Assistant, Wang EconLab 2020-2021 (UNM Ph.D. student 2015-2021), currently Assistant Professor of Economics at Gordon College (Massachusetts). [Selected Publication with Wang EconLab]
Mohammad Mashiur Rahman, Project Assistant, Wang EconLab Summer 2020 & Summer 2021 (UNM Ph.D. student 2015-2021), currently Assistant Teaching Professor at Northern Arizona University. [Selected Publication with Wang EconLab]
Mohammad Ali, Research Assistant, Wang EconLab 2015-2016 (UNM Ph.D. student 2013-2019), currently Assistant Professor of Economics at Centenary College of Louisiana. [Selected Publication with Wang EconLab]
Janak Joshi, Research Assistant & Ph.D. Dissertation, Wang EconLab 2014-2018 (UNM Ph.D. student 2012-2018), currently Assistant Professor of Economics at Hood College. [Selected Publication with Wang EconLab]
Undergraduate Students
Celeste Lucero (UNM Class of 2024), Project Assistant, Wang EconLab Fall 2023 - Spring 2024, currently a BA/MA student of Economics at UNM
Najhozhoni Rain Ben (UNM Class of 2024), Research Assistant, Wang EconLab Spring 2022
Carlos Ortega-Lujan (UNM Class of 2023), Project Assistant, Wang EconLab Spring 2021 & Spring 2023, currently a BA/MA student of Economics at UNM
Matthew Goldman (UNM Class of 2022), Project Assistant, Wang EconLab Spring 2021, currently Analyst at Carvana.