Staff at the AEE Lab

Last Updated: 3rd March 2008

Karel Nolles - Director

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Karel Nolles is the Owner and Director of AEE Lab and Aton Consulting Pty Ltd, and is currently employed full time as an Associate Director in the Global Climate Change Practice at Macquarie Capital (based in Sydney).

Karel has worked as a consultant, academic and small business owner in the areas of sustainability investing, energy and environmental markets since 1996.

Karel was a Senior Research Fellow in the Dean's Unit of the Faculty of Commerce and Economics at UNSW in 2004/2005, and was one of the founding academics of the UNSW Centre for Energy & Environmental Markets (CEEM).  His academic research interests focus on the application of experimental economics to questions regarding markets for Renewable Energy and greenhouse emissions markets.

He commenced research using experimental economics in 2001, and spent 3 months in each of 2003 and 2004 as a Visiting Research Scholar with Vernon Smith's Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic Science at George Mason University in Washington DC. 

From 2000 to 2005 Karel was the Manager, Environmental Markets for the Australian Financial Markets Association.

A partial list of his consulting work includes:

  • Ergon Energy: An experimental economics investigation of the Mandatory Renewable Energy Market. 2006

  • ASX: Research grant to develop experimental economics tools for education. 2005

  • AFMA/Government of Tasmania: Implementation of Basslink Settlement Residue Auctions. 2005-06

  • NSW Environment Protection Agency: Design of primary issuance auction for the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme. (AFMA consulting). 2003


Recent publications from Karel include::

 

Dr. Brian Scott - Senior Research Fellow

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Brian Scott is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and has joined AEE Lab as a Senior Research Fellow on a part-time basis.

Brian received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he was awarded an Environmental Manufacturing Management fellowship supported by the Institute of Environmental Science and Policy.  The focus of his thesis and published articles have been environmental policy with an emphasis on experimental testing of market based instruments, starting his first experiments on the subject in 2001. Brian has coauthored a book, “Control of Urban Smog: The Significance of the Chicago Cap and Trade Approach”, which is due out in October 2006.

His current experimental work covers mergers and acquisitions, and the effects of such mergers on consumer prices, quantities of goods in the market, and firm profit.  Other current research projects involve nitrogen removal from waterways through managed wetlands, or wetland farms, and in more esoteric game theory experiments, measuring social distance, and the effects of “forced volunteerism”.

A partial list of Brian’s publications and presentations includes:

  •  “The Economics of Nitrogen Farming”, report produced for The Wetlands Initiative, 2006

  • “Control of Urban Smog: The Significance of the Chicago Cap and Trade Approach”, with Kosobud, Richard F., Houston H. Stokes, Carol D. Tallarico, Routledge Publishing, 2006

  • Kosobud, Richard F., Houston H. Stokes, Carol D. Tallarico, Brian L. Scott, “Valuing Tradable Private Rights to Pollute the Public's Air”, Review of Accounting and Finance,  Vol. 4, No. 1, 50-71, 2005

 

 

John Zhou - Senior Developer

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John joined the AEELab in early 2006 and is our lead developer. John has overall responsibility for managing our software and system administration team. Before working with the AEELab John has worked both in Australia and overseas developing network softwares and search engine products using Java,C and PHP with Oracle and MySQL databases. His professional interest focus lies in the area of Knowledge Systems and Data Mining. John is currently completing a Masters degree in computing science at the University of NSW.

 

 

Jackson Xuyang Lin - Java Applications Developer 

Troy Clark - Applications Developer and Systems Administration

Suzie Hunter - Administrative Officer

Joyce Wu - Accounts and Office Administration

Jhoanna Rhodette Pedrasa - AEELab Website Administration

 

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