Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Associate Professor Kristian Rotaru is a decision scientist working across a variety of business disciplines, including accounting, information systems, finance, and operations management. He also conducts research in cognitive psychology, with a focus on impulsive and compulsive behaviours, emotional regulation and wellbeing. He is the Chair of the Steering Committee at the Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory, Associate Director at the Opportunity Tech Lab, and PhD Program Director in the Department of Accounting, Monash Business School. He is a visiting researcher at BrainPark and a key collaborator at the Clinical Psychedelic Research Lab - both labs are affiliated with the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the Brain, Mind & Markets Lab, The University of Melbourne. He is one of the pioneers and key contributors to the emerging research domain of neuroaccounting.
Kristian holds a PhD in Economics, a PhD in Accounting Information Systems, and, more recently, a Graduate Diploma in Psychology and an Honours degree in Psychology. In his research, he adopts a variety of research methods, including laboratory and field experiments (involving the use of eye-tracking, cognitive pupillometry, electrodermal activity assessment, electrocardiography and electroencephalography technologies and virtual reality), market data analysis, conceptual, analytical and simulation modelling.
His latest research focuses on risk analysis and visualisation, emotion regulation, affective decision-making in everyday economic behaviours, neurocognitive and functional correlates of addiction and well-being, and designing and testing interventions for behavioural change.
As a recognised expert in Data Analytics, Kristian has been invited as a keynote speaker at a number of large events organised by CPA Australia. He has also presented his research at multiple research seminars in top business schools in the US, Canada, the UK, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia. At Monash Business School, Kristian lectures Business Analytics, Accounting Information Systems, Financial Modelling and Philosophy of Research units for honours, Masters, and PhD students.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Behavioural/Experimental Accounting and Finance
- Business Process Modelling and Simulation
- Financial and Managerial Risk Taking
- Multimethod Simulation
- Agent-Based
- System Dynamics
- Discrete Event Simulation
- News Analytics and HFT
- Performance Measurement Systems
- Risk Analytics (In Accounting, Finance, and Operations Management)
- Supply Chain Risk Management
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 7 Finished
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Manufacturing Sector Circular Economy Capabilities: Identifying Enablers, Barriers, and Enhancements
Sohal, A., Prajogo, D., Croy, G., Rotaru, K., Bhattacharya, A., Fenwick, V. & Nand, A.
11/10/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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‘Home alone’ online: Digital privacy, engagement, and complex financial decision-making.
Demmers, J., Dellaert, B. & Rotaru, K.
1/03/20 → 28/02/21
Project: Research
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Avoidance Behaviour in Financial Capability
Oppewal, H., Vlaev, I., Rotaru, K. & Patel, K.
1/02/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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AFAANZ2016: Risk presentation format and retirement portfolio preferences: Emotions and risk-taking rationality at different levels of financial competence
Smith, S., Rotaru, K. & Garg, M.
1/11/16 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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Bridging the links between Big Five personality traits and problematic smartphone use: a network analysis
Liu, C., Ren, L., Rotaru, K., Liu, X., Li, K., Yang, W., Li, Y., Wei, X., Yücel, M. & Albertella, L., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Transitioning to a circular economy: lessons from the wood industry
De Vass, T., Nand, A. A., Bhattacharya, A., Prajogo, D., Croy, G., Sohal, A. & Rotaru, K., 28 Apr 2023, In: The International Journal of Logistics Management. 34, 3, p. 582-610 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Unpacking the cognitive processes of the boundedly rational newsvendor
Niranjan, T. T., Ghosalya, N. K., Menon, R. R., Rotaru, K. & Gavirneni, S., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Production and Operations Management. 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Distress-driven impulsivity interacts with trait compulsivity in association with problematic drinking: a two-sample study
Liu, C., Rotaru, K., Chamberlain, S. R., Yücel, M., Grant, J. E., Lee, R. S. C., Wulandari, T., Suo, C. & Albertella, L., 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13, 8 p., 938275.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Effects of data visualization choices on psychophysiological responses, judgment, and audit quality
Rose, A. M., Rose, J. M., Rotaru, K., Sanderson, K-A. & Thibodeau, J., 1 Mar 2022, In: The Journal of Information Systems. 36, 1, p. 53-79 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus)