Rate My Professor John Christie

Dr John Christie is a Lecturer in Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance within the College of Business and Law at Adelaide University. With more than 25 years of experience in university teaching, previously at UniSA Business, Dr Christie delivers courses such as Business Finance (BAFI 1001), Principles of Finance (BAFI 5000), and International Currency and Banking Markets at the Adelaide City Campus East. His academic credentials include a Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Business by Research, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and Bachelor of Commerce from Flinders University, along with a Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) from the South Australian College of Advanced Education. These qualifications underpin his expertise in finance education and research.

Dr Christie's research specializations are the analysis of stock market indices, dynamical systems and chaos theory, and financial mathematics. His publications include 'Joining or exiting the defined benefit division superannuation scheme of UniSuper' in the Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal (2023); 'Stock market crashes in Australia: a brief technical note' in the same journal (2021); 'Chaos in perturbed Lotka-Volterra systems' in the ANZIAM Journal (2001, with K. Gopalsamy and J. Li); 'Perturbed generalised Hamiltonian systems and some advection models' in the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (1998, with J. Li and K. Gopalsamy); 'Subharmonic orbits in an anharmonic oscillator' in the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B Applied Mathematics (1997, with K. Gopalsamy and M. P. Panizza); 'The motion of a mass hanging from an overhead crane' in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (1995, with R. R. Huilgol and M. P. Panizza); and 'Chaos in sociobiology' in the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (1995, with K. Gopalsamy and J. Li). Dr Christie has been recognized for teaching excellence with the UniSA Supported Teacher Award (2012), UniSA Teaching and Learning Excellence Commendation (2017), and UniSA Teaching Commendation Awards (2024 and 2025).