Surjasama Lahiri

Teaching Fellow

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Business School

  • Teaching Fellow
    Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Business School
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Dr Surjasama Lahiri is a Teaching Fellow in the Management discipline group at Deakin University. He has over four years of experience delivering quantitative and qualitative units. In the process, he has managed digital and hybrid learning environments for large cohorts, complementing them with instructional innovation, student consultations, and proactive engagement roles -- all of which has earned him the Teaching Excellence Award in 2025. 
 
In addition to their teaching accomplishments, Surja has a strong research background. He held a Postdoctoral Researcher position at Paris Dauphine University in France, specializing in digital economics. He has published his research in peer-reviewed journalsand his main research interests lie in the areas of applied microeconomics, policy analysis, digital economics and industrial organization.
 
Surja also brings in experience coordinating academic working groups, also having contributed to organization and charing at the Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy 2023 (Corsica). Complementing his academic background, Surja also has stints working in the industry.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Teaching Fellow
    Deakin University, Management Discipline Group

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Postdoctoral researcher
    Paris Dauphine University, Governance and Regulation Chair, Paris, France26 Nov 2021 - 31 Mar 2024

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia9 Mar 2017 - 21 Jan 2021
  • Master of Arts
    Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India1 Jul 2014 - 1 Jul 2016
  • Bachelor of Arts
    Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India1 Jul 2011 - 1 Jul 2014

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Hindi
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • Bengali
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • French
    Can read, write, speak and understand

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Industry economics and industrial organisation
  • Public policy
  • Applied economics

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Business and Law

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • Deakin Business School
  • Management Discipline Group