Dale Poirier, UCI economics professor, has been selected to be a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of Technology, Sydney from February 5-28, 2013. He will deliver a public lecture there on econometrics and give a seminar on the topic at the Research School of Economics, Australian National University and serve as the keynote speaker at the University of Melbourne Bayesian Econometrics Workshop.

Poirier joined the UCI faculty in 1999. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, American Statistical Association, and Journal of Econometrics. He currently serves as associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics and recently published a chapter in the Handbook of Bayesian Econometrics.