Dr. Simon Jantschgi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a member of the Center for Market Design at the University of Zurich, and an associate member at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. He works on market design and microeconomic theory, emphasizing how they can be applied to real-world markets. Recently, he’s been fascinated by the design of financial markets and online trading platforms, and creating fair and efficient ways to (re)allocate indivisible goods without the use of money. In parallel, he has consulted for companies in Zurich and New York on market design. For a bit of fun, he also applies game theory to sports like football and tennis. 

Before joining the University of Zurich in 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford, and in Mathematics at the Simons Laufer Research Institute in Berkeley.

In 2023, he received a joint PhD in Sociology, Mathematics & Computer Science from the Universities of Zurich and Grenoble-Alpes. For his PhD thesis, he was awarded the 2024 UZH Annual Award. Simultaneously, he was selected for the PhD Excellence Program of the Digitial Society Initiative. He previously studied Mathematics at ETH Zurich (BSc and MSc), receiving both the 2019 ETH Medal and the 2016 VMP Assistant Award.

More about his work is available at https://www.simonjantschgi.com.