He also chairs the University Research Committee, which is in charge of steering research work. Dr Petreski specializes in research and teaching in applied macroeconomics. His narrow research focus is exchange-rate regimes and monetary policy and strategy, with particular reference to developing countries. For his research he was awarded the Young Scientist Award 2009 by the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Olga Radzyner Award 2010 by the Austrian National Bank and the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development 2013 by the Government of Japan.