Prior to her appointment at the School of Management, Dr. Shcherbakova was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in energy economics and energy finance. Dr. Shcherbakova holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. She specializes in energy economics, market regulation, and energy and financial risk and her recent academic research projects have included studying the effect of increased renewable integration on system costs in South Korea’s electricity markets, detecting cultural biases in investor perceptions of energy assets, and evaluating shipping inefficiencies in the global liquefied natural gas industry.