Abolfazl Keshavarzsaleh

Farshid Keshavarz (Abolfazl Keshavarzsaleh) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research School of Management, College of Economics and Business, The Australian National University, working under the supervision of Professor Vinh Lu. His research stream focuses on consumer behaviour, particularly in relation to consumer activism behaviours (consumer boycotts and buycotts), socioecological factors (relational mobility, residential mobility, walkability, and culture), and transformative service research (social robots).

Farshid received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Deakin University Business School for his thesis on “Consumer Activism: Role of Relational Constructs”, supervised by Alfred Deakin Professor Michael Polonsky. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Farshid held a BBA (Hons) from the International University of Malaya-Wales (IUMW), as well as holding a position as a project assistant and coordinator at the High Impact Research Center of the University of Malaya (UM), supervised by Professor Chen Wang from Huaqiao University and Professor Hamzah Bin HJ Abdul Rahman from the University of Malaya. Farshid also spent several years working in the fast-moving innovation sector in Southeast Asia, focusing on university-industry collaboration.