Lisa House
Department Chair
1171 MCCA
352-294-7653
lahouse@ufl.edu

Charles Moss
Associate Department Chair & Professor
1175 MCCA
352-294-7630
cbmoss@ufl.edu

Faculty

Damian Adams
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
G040 MCCD
352-392-1784
dcadams@ufl.edu

James Anderson
Professor
Food Systems Institute
352-294-7697
401-480-9488
james.anderson@ufl.edu

Thomas M. Anderson Jr.
Assistant Professor
1097 MCCB
352-294-7658
thomas.anderson@
ufl.edu

Lijun (Angelia) Chen
Assistant Professor
1103 MCCB
352-294-7678
lijunchen@ufl.edu

Jennifer Clark
Instructional Associate Professor
1191 MCCA
352-294-7636
tspartin@ufl.edu

Christa Court
Associate Professor of Regional
Economics & Director
of Economic Impact
Analysis Program
1113 MCCB
352-294-7675
ccourt@ufl.edu

Edward 'Gilly' Evans
Professor & REC Director
Tropical Research & Education Center
786-217-9263
eaevans@ufl.edu 

Di Fang
Associate Professor
1105 MCCB
352-294-7671
difang@ufl.edu

Derek Farnsworth
Associate Professor
1083 MCCB
352-294-7698
dfarnswo@ufl.edu

Zhifeng Gao
Professor, Graduate Coordinator
1161 MCCA
352-294-7672
zfgao@ufl.edu

 
Jared Gars
Assistant Professor
1123 MCCB  
352-294-7692
jgars87@ufl.edu

Zhengfei Guan
Associate Professor
Gulf Coast Research and Education Center
Room 133
813-419-6590
guanz@ufl.edu

 
Malek Hammami
Assistant Professor
Tropical Research and Education Center
(786) 217-9248
ahammami@ufl.edu

James Ji
Assistant Professor
1193 MCCA
352-294-7658
xji1@ufl.edu

Bachir Kassas
Assistant Professor
1099 MCCB
352-294-7646
b.kassas@ufl.edu

Hayk Khachatryan
Professor
Mid-Florida Research
& Education Center
407-410-6951
hayk@ufl.edu

Young Kim
Assistant Professor
Arriving August 2025 
young.kim@
economics.ox.ac.uk

Jaclyn Kropp
Professor
1157 MCCA
352-294-7631
jkropp@ufl.edu

John Lai
Assistant Professor
1109 MCCB
352-294-7647
johnlai@ufl.edu

Sherry Larkin
Professor and Director
Director, Florida Sea Grant
352-392-5870
slarkin@ufl.edu

 
Kimberly L. Morgan
Associate Professor
Southwest Florida Research and Education Center
239-658-3428
KIMorgan@ufl.edu

Conner Mullally
Associate Professor
1107 MCCB
352-294-7680
connerm@ufl.edu

Michael Olexa
Professor & Director of Law Center
2126 MCCB
352-294-7693
olexa@ufl.edu

Gulcan Onel
Associate Professor
1091 MCCB
352-294-7657
gulcan.onel@ufl.edu

Nathan Palardy
Assistant Professor
1087 MCCB
352-294-9045
n.palardy@ufl.edu

Xiaohui (Sherry) Qiao
Research Assistant Professor
2111 MCCB 
xiaohui.qiao@ufl.edu

Andrew Ropicki
Assistant Professor
1117 MCCB
352-294-7667
aropicki@ufl.edu

Olesya Savchenko
Assistant Professor
1183 MCCA
352-294-7654
Olesya.Savchenko
@ufl.edu

Andrew Schmitz
Professor
1130 (C) MCCB
352-294-7685
aschmitz@ufl.edu|

James Seale
Professor
1130 (B) MCCB
352-294-7684
jseale@ufl.edu

Misti Sharp
Instructional Associate Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
1189 MCCA
352-294-7632
mistisharp@ufl.edu
FRE-advising@ifas.ufl.edu

Ariel Singerman
Associate  Professor
Citrus Research & Education Center
863-956-1151
singerman@ufl.edu

Caleb Stair
Instructional Assistant Professor
1179 MCCA
352-294-7687
cstair@ufl.edu

 
Suzanne Thornsbury
Professor
1155 MCCA
352-294-7666
thornsbs@ufl.edu

Pilar Useche
Professor
1081 MCCB
352-294-7665
useche@ufl.edu

Tara Wade
Assistant Professor
Southwest Florida Research & Education Center
239-658-3444
tara.wade@ufl.edu

Patrick Ward
Associate Professor
1121 MCCB
352-317-1829
wardp@ufl.edu

Weizhe Weng
Assistant Professor
MCCB 1095
352-294-1752
wweng@ufl.edu

Al Wysocki
Associate Dean and Professor
2002 MCCD
352-392-1963
wysocki@ufl.edu

Sungeun Yoon
Assistant Research Scientist
sungeunyoon@ufl.edu

Xumin Zhang
Instructional Assistant Professor
1177 MCCA
352-294-7623
xumzxm@ufl.edu

Adjunct Faculty and Postdoctoral Associates

Ming Ge
Postdoctoral Associate
mge1@ufl.edu

Samiul (Sami) Haque

samiul.haque@ufl.edu
Mid-Florida REC - Apopka

Google Scholar 

ORCID

Younghyeon Jeon

yjeon1@ufl.edu
Mid-Florida REC - Apopka

Glory Orivri
Postdoctoral Associate
g.okpiaifo@ufl.edu

Moon Soh
Postdoctoral Associate
moonwon.soh@ufl.edu

Bixuan Yang
Postdoctoral Associate
yangbixuan@ufl.edu

David DePatie Jr.
Instructional Design, Web & IT Support
1104B MCCB       Helpful Links
352-294-7641
ddepatie@ufl.edu

FRE Web Update Request Form

Trey Gifford
Academic Advisor 1
1170A McCarty A
352-294-7640
agifford1@ufl.edu

Book time with
Gifford, Trey

FRE-Advising

Jess Herman
Graduate Academic Advisor
1170B MCCA
352-294-7622
jherman@ufl.edu

Ed Howard
End User Computing Specialist
1104A MCCB
352-294-7645
edhoward@ufl.edu

Candy Kaswinkel
Administrative Specialist
1167 MCCA
352-294-7669
ckaswin@ufl.edu|

Kelsey McDaid
Research Coordinator, Economic Impact Analysis Program
1115 MCCB
352-294-7629
kmcdaid@ufl.edu 

Bill Messina
Economic Analyst, Cuban Agriculture
1195 MCCA
352-294-7656
wamess@ufl.edu

Hope Nelson, 
Academic Program Specialist 
1197B MCCA
352-294-7686
hope.nelson@ufl.edu

Alena Poulin
Marketing & Communications Specialist
1197A MCCA
352-294-7662
alenarene@ufl.edu

FRE Web Update Request Form

Graduate Students

PhD Students
Ulrich Adegbola ulylerich@ufl.edu Advisor - Savchenko	Prabin Adhikari prabinadhikari@ufl.edu Advisor - Kassas	Faith Aiya Faith.aiya@ufl.edu Advisor - Chen/Morgan
Kelvin Amon kamon@ufl.edu Advisor - Chen/Morgan	Fernando Brito f.britogonzalez@ufl.edu Advisor - Onel/Gars	Yetian Cai cai.yetian@ufl.edu Advisor - Weng/Guan
Adams Ceballos aceballos@ufl.edu Advisor - Ropicki/Asche	Liam Corcoran w.corcoran@ufl.edu Advisor - Court	Julio Cruz cruz.julio@ufl.edu Advisor - House/Court
Iris Cui xiurui.cui@ufl.edu Advisor - Guan	Shangze Dai shangzedai@ufl.edu Advisor - Ji	Dinglin Duan d.duan@ufl.edu Advisor - Gao
Sheikh Emran emran.s@ufl.edu Advisor - Schmitz	Yujuan Gao yujuan.gao@ufl.edu Advisor - Mullally	Suraj Gurung surajgurung@ufl.edu Advisor - Chen
Nicholas Haley nhaley@ufl.edu Advisor - Savchenko	Meri Hambaryan m.hambaryan@ufl.edu Advisor - Lai/Kassas	Chenxi Hu chenxi.hu@ufl.edu Advisor - Gao
Roberto Koeneke rkoeneke@ufl.edu Advisor - Court	Candace Lantz candace.lantz@ufl.edu Advisor - Palardy	Dongso Lee dongso.lee@ufl.edu Advisor - Moss
Youmin Li liyoumin@ufl.edu Advisor - Qiao/Weng	Jinyang Li li.jinyang@ufl.edu Advisor - Fang	Yi Li yi.li1@ufl.edu Advisor - Guan
Hanwen Lui h.liu1@ufl.edu Advisor - Gars	Jianhui Liu jianhuiliu@ufl.edu Advisor - Kassas/Lai	Lijun Liu LL2700@ufl.edu Advisor - Anderson/Asche
Wen Liu wliu3@ufl.edu Advisor - Onel/Kropp	Jordan Moor jordanmoor@ufl.edu Advisor - Ropicki/Asche	Ephraim Muyombo e.muyombo@ufl.edu Advisor - Thornsbury
Abhishek Rajan a.rajan@ufl.edu Advisor - Savchenko	Md Roknuzzaman md.roknuzzaman@ufl.edu Advisor - Mullally	Qianxi Wang qianxiwang@ufl.edu Advisor - Onel
Lei Xu lei.xu@ufl.edu Advisor - Singerman	Yingchen Xu yingchenxu@ufl.edu Advisor - Ward

Master of Science (MS)doc

First and Last Name	Contact	Research Area	Chair
Solomon Ajoseh
Ikeoluwa Aregbu	ikeoluwa.aregbe@ufl.edu		Farnsworth
Andres Bejarano
Victor Contreras
Liam Corcoran	w.corcoran@ufl.edu		Savchenko
William Gendron
Christian Ruiz
Christiana Ukaoha
Ashley Wilder
Lei Xu

Master of Agribusiness (MAB)

Emeritus and Courtesy Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Please call 352-392-1826 to be put in contact with Emeritus Faculty.

Courtesy Faculty