Prof. Mo Zhou, Ph.D.

• Curriculum Vitae
• Email: mozhou@purdue.edu
• Tel: 001-765-494-3098
• Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, 715 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Education

• Beijing Forestry University, Beijing China,  MIS, B.S. 1998
• Technical University of Munich, Munich Germany, Forestry, M.S. 2000
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Forestry, Ph.D. 2005

Professional experience

• 2021 – present Associate Professor of Forest Economics and Management, Purdue University
• 2018 – 2021 Assistant Professor of Forest Economics and Management, Purdue University
• 2011 – 2018   Assistant Professor of Forest Economics, West Virginia University
• 2008 – 2011   Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Management, University of Alaska
• 2005 – 2007  Research Associate, Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management, UW-Madison

Editorship

• Associate Editor of Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2015-present
• Associate Editor of Forest Ecosystems, 2013-present

Featured Publications

Zhou, M*. and J. Buongiorno, J. 2019. Optimal forest management under financial risk aversion with discounted Markov decision process models. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. (In press)

Zhou, M*. 2017. “Valuing Environmental Amenities through Inverse Optimization: Theory and Case Study”. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 83: 217 – 230.

Zhou, M.* 2015. “Adapting Forest Management to Climate Policy Uncertainty: a Conceptual Framework”. Forest Policy and Economics 59, 66-74.

Zhou, M. *and J. Buongiorno. 2011. Effects of Stochastic Interest Rates in Decision Making under Risk: a Markov Decision Process Model for Forest Management. Forest Policy and Economics13: 402-410.

Zhou, M. and Buongiorno, J., 2006. Space-time modeling of timber prices. Journal of agricultural and resource economics, pp.40-56.