Shino Takayama is Associate Professor and Senior HEA Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, where she has been appointed since 2007. Prior to this, she held a faculty position in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney from 2005 to 2007. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006 and her MA in Economics, with a minor in Mathematics, from the same institution in 2003. Takayama's research specializations encompass microeconomic theory, financial economics, mathematical economics, game theory, and public economics. Her scholarly contributions include principal supervision of PhD theses such as "Essays on Information and Financial Markets" (2024), "Essays in Asymmetric Competition" (2023), "Essays on Development Economics" (2020), and "Essays on the Missing Middle" (2016). She has secured significant funding, including Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP190102689 (AUD 180,000, 2019–2022), DP1093105 (AUD 270,000, 2010–2012), UQ Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (AUD 683,415, 2013–2017), and UQ Early Career Researcher Grant (2010).

Key publications by Takayama feature "Unraveling corruption and state capacity with heterogeneous productivity" with Diego Carrasco and Nhan Buu Phan (Southern Economic Journal, 2025); "Corruption and productivity: the case of small and medium sized enterprises in Vietnam" with Carrasco, Guan-Jia Huang, and Phan (Applied Economics Letters, 2025); "Policy polarization, primaries, and strategic voters" with Carrasco, Yuki Tamura, and Terence Yeo (Mathematical Social Sciences, 2024); "Price manipulation, dynamic informed trading, and the uniqueness of equilibrium in sequential trading" (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021); "Nash equilibrium and party polarization in an electoral model with mixed motivations" with Tamura and Yeo (Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019); "Social choice correspondences with infinitely many agents: serial dictatorship" with Akira Yokotani (Social Choice and Welfare, 2017); and "A Trade and Welfare Analysis of Tariff Changes Within the TPP" with Juyoung Cheong (The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016). In education, she coordinates courses including Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, International Trade and Investment, Quantitative Methods for Economics, Economics of Financial Markets, Game Theory and Strategy, and Industrial Economics. Takayama has earned the Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2025), Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2020), BEL Employee Excellence Awards for teaching leadership and design (2022–2025), School of Economics Education Award for Excellence in Designing Student Learning (2023), and Distinguished Teaching Award for Large Postgraduate Course (2018). She chairs the Co-Editor Selection Committee for Economic Analysis and Policy (2025) and served on the Editorial Advisory Board of New Voices in Japanese Studies (2017).

Professional Email: s.takayama1@uq.edu.au