People behind the Zurich Center for Market Design

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An interdisciplinary community of professors, postdocs, PhD students, and industry researchers — advancing market design across economics, computer science, and beyond.

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From auctions and matching to AI, blockchain, and mechanism design — our people span fourteen research fields. Choose one to explore.

Co-Directors

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Nax

SUZ, UZH

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Research Interests: Auctions, Behavioral Economics & Experimental Economics

Prof. Dr. Marek Pycia

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Auctions, Industrial Organization & Matching

Professors

Prof. Dr. Sandro Ambuehl

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Experimental Economics & Behavioral Economics

Prof. Dr. Björn Bartling

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Experimental Economics & Behavioral Economics

Prof. Dr. Gregory Crawford

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Industrial Organization & Policy

Prof. Dr. Florian Dörfler

Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Game Theory & Mechanism Design

Prof. Dr. Christian Ewerhart

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Auctions, Finance & Game Theory

Prof. Dr. Hans Gersbach

D-MTEC, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Game Theory, Political Economy & Policy

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hens

Department of Banking and Finance, UZH

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Research Interests: Blockchain & Finance

Prof. Dr. Samuel Häfner

Institute of Economics, Univ. of St. Gallen

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Research Interests: Auctions, Blockchain & Industrial Organization

Prof. Dr. Barton Lee

D-MTEC, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Political Economy & Policy

Prof. Dr. Igor Letina

Department of Economics, Univ. of Bern

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Research Interests: Industrial Organization & Policy

Prof. Dr. Nick Netzer

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Game Theory & Behavioral Economics

Prof. Dr. Georg Nöldeke

Faculty of Business and Economics, Univ. of Basel

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Research Interests: Game Theory & Matching

Prof. Dr. Kjell Nyborg

Department of Banking and Finance, UZH

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Research Interests: Finance

Prof. Dr. Bary Pradelski

CNRS and Univ. of Oxford

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Research Interests: Auctions, Game Theory, Matching & Policy

Prof. Dr. Katja Rost

Department of Sociology, UZH

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Research Interests: Experimental Economics & Behavioral Economics

Prof. Dr. Karl Schmedders

IMD

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Research Interests: Blockchain & Finance

Prof. Dr. Armin Schmutzler

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Industrial Organization & Policy

Prof. Dr. Jakub Steiner

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Behavioral Economics & Game Theory

Prof. Dr. Dezsö Szalay

Department of Economics, Univ. of Bonn

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Research Interests: Finance, Game Theory & Industrial Organization

Prof. Dr. Josef Teichmann

Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Finance

Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer

Department of Information Technology & EE, ETH

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Research Interests: Blockchain & Game Theory

Postdocs

Dr. Simon Jantschgi

UZH and Nuffield College, Univ. of Oxford

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Research Interests: Auctions, Finance & Matching

Dr. Byeong-hyeon Jeong

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Auctions & Matching

Affiliated Researchers in Industry

Dr. Paul Dütting

Staff Research Scientist, Google Switzerland

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Research Interests: Auctions, Game Theory, Mechanism Design & Machine Learning

Dr. Nicolas Eschenbaum

Senior Economist & AI Lead, Swiss Economics

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Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Policy

Dr. Shangen Li

Quantitative Analyst, UBS Zurich

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Research Interests: Finance & Mechanism Design

Dr. Luzius Meisser

Board Member at Bitcoin Suisse; Cofounder Aktionariat

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Research Interests: Blockchain & Finance

Dr. Jan Christoph Schlegel

Senior Expert Fellow, Swiss Economics

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Research Interests: Blockchain & Matching

Dr. Sven Seuken

Chief Economist & Chief Analytics Officer, Tools for Humanity / Worldcoin
Co-Founder and Former Co-Director of the Zurich Center for Market Design

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Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Machine Learning

Dr. Manvir Schneider

Senior Research Scientist, Cardano Foundation

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Research Interests: Blockchain & Game Theory

Dr. Kremena Valkanova

Web3 Foundation

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Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Blockchain & Mechanism Design

Dr. Jakob Weissteiner

Quant at UBS Zurich, Group Risk Control

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Research Interests: Finance & Machine Learning

PhD Students

Cesare Carissimo

Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory & Machine Learning

Paul Friedrich

Department of Computer Science, UZH

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Research Interests: Machine Learning & Mechanism Design

Sophie Hall

Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Game Theory & Mechanism Design

Verena Häberle

Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Game Theory & Mechanism Design

Pedro Pablo Pérez Velasco

D-MTEC, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Political Economy & Policy

Ermis Soumalias

Department of Computer Science, UZH

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Research Interests: Machine Learning & Mechanism Design

Vinzenz Thoma

AI Center, ETH Zurich

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Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory & Mechanism Design

Martin Valdevenito

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Matching

Haoyun Zeng

Department of Economics, UZH

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Research Interests: Auctions

Past Visitors

Prof. Dr. Yan Chen

School of Information, University of Michigan

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Research Interests: Behavioral Economics & Experimental Economics

Prof. Dr. Piotr Dworczak

Department of Economics, Northwestern University

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Research Interests: Finance, Market Design & Mechanism Design

Prof. Dr. William Fuchs

McCombs School of Business, University of Texas

Research Interests: Finance, Game Theory & Policy

Prof. Dr. Simon Loertscher

Centre for Market Design, University of Melbourne

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Research Interests: Auctions, Industrial Organization & Mechanism Design

Prof. Dr. Thanh Nguyen

Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

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Research Interests: Auctions, Game Theory & Matching

Prof. Dr. Fedor Sandomirskiy

Department of Economics, Princeton University

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Research Interests: Auctions, Game Theory & Matching

Prof. Dr. Larry Samuelson

Department of Economics, Yale University

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Research Interests: Game Theory & Matching

Prof. Dr. Peter Troyan

Department of Economics, University of Virginia

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Research Interests: Auctions, Matching & Mechanism Design

Prof. Dr. M. Utku Ünver

Department of Economics, Boston College

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Research Interests: Matching & Mechanism Design

Dr. Kyle Woodward

Economist, Amazon

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Research Interests: Auctions, Game Theory & Mechanism Design

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