Gaoping Zheng

Dr Gaoping Zheng is a Senior Lecturer in Finance. She joined RMIT in 2020. Before joining RMIT, she accumulated academic working experience at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China, at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and Monash University in Australia.

Her research interests are in the aspects of corporate finance, corporate governance, and behaviour finance. She has published academic papers in the leading finance and accounting journals, such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Management Accounting Research. Her work has attracted over AUD 140,000 in competitive funding as Chief Investigator or Co-Investigator. Notably, She was awarded a 2025 Australian Security and Investment Commission grant (AUD 129,628) for research on retail investors and a 2021 AFAANZ grant for a quasi-natural experiment on online communication and liquidity. Her research has attracted attention beyond academia and has been disseminated in over 14 media outlets and 61 social media items, notable outlets including Capital.com, Financial Standard, and Australian Investors Association.

She is also a passionate educator who was awarded the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing (EFM) Education Award and won the CoBL Learning & Teaching Impact Award nominated by students.