Grichawat is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and the Associate Dean for Academic, Research, And Global Affairs of the College of Local Administration, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. His research interests include local governance, decentralization, fiscal federalism, intergovernmental relations, public participation, and transparency. His peer-reviewed academic articles have been published in the International Journal of Public Sector Management, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, Journal of Public Affairs, the Social Science Journal, and State and Local Government Review. He also co-authored a chapter on local government in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand (2020) and a chapter on decentralization on Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural Policy (2020). In 2019, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award by Khon Kaen University.