Professor Rimmer is a researcher at the Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University. She is the author and co-author of 60 scholarly published articles, appearing in mathematics and economics journals and edited volumes. Her main area of expertise is in model development and application. With Peter Dixon she is the co-developer of the MONASH model of the Australian economy and the co-author of the MONASH book which was published in 2002 in North-Holland’s Contributions to Economic Analysis.