Jan Christoph Schlegel, Ph.D.
Expert Fellow
Biography
Jan Christoph Schlegel is an Expert Fellow with the Center for Cryptoeconomics and an Assistant Professor at the University of London. He is a leading expert in market design, in particular for the design of matching markets and auctions. Moreover, he works on economic and game theoretic aspects of blockchains and cryptocurrencies.
After studying Mathematics at ETH Zurich, Jan Christoph Schlegel obtained a PhD in Economics from HEC Lausanne with a dissertation about matching markets. During his PhD studies, he was a Visiting Student Researcher at the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Jan Christoph Schlegel has published in leading Economics and Computer Science journals and he has been invited as a speaker at several international conferences and workshops.
Work Experience
- Associate Professor, City, University of London (2020 – )
- Assistant Professor, City, University of London (2017 – 2020)
- Expert Fellow for Cryptecon and Swiss Economics (2019 –)
- Research Assistant, HEC Lausanne (2012 – 2017)
- Research Intern, Las Alamos National Labs (2011)
Education
- PhD in Economics, HEC Lausanne, awarded «Prix de Faculté» (2012-2017)
- Visiting PhD student, Stanford University (2015-2016)
- Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students in Economics, Study Center Gerzensee (2013)
- M.Sc. in Mathematics, ETH Zurich (2011)
- B.Sc. in Mathematics, ETH Zurich (2010)
Selected Publications
- Karakaya Mehmet, Klaus Bettina and Schlegel Jan Christoph (2019). Top Trading Cycles, Consistency, and Acyclic Priorities for House Allocation with Existing Tenants. Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 184, 104948.
- Schlegel Jan Christoph (2015). Contract versus Salaries in Matching: A General Result. Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 159, pp. 552-573.
- Schlegel Jan Christoph (2018). A Note on Ex-Ante Stable Lotteries. Economics Letters, Volume 164, pp. 90-93.
- Schlegel Jan Christoph (2019). Trading Networks with General Preferences. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, (EC19), p.63.
- Schlegel Jan Christoph (2016). Virtual Demand and Stable Mechanisms. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, (EC16), p. 63.
- Mihalak Mathus and Schlegel Jan Christoph (2013). The Price of Anarchy in Network Creation Games is (Mostly) Constant. Theory of Computing Systems, Volume 53 (1), pp. 53-72.