Simon Löwe

Resume

Experience

2025–present
Senior Economist, Burning Glass Institute
2023–2025
Economist, Burning Glass Institute

Education

2019–2023
PhD in Economics, Paris School of Economics (PSE)
  • Advised by Thomas Breda and Luc Behaghel
  • Defended on November 2, 2023
  • Visiting student at Bocconi University, working with Thomas Le Barbanchon (October 2022 – September 2023)
  • Visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invited by Simon Jäger (February 2022 – July 2022)
2017–2019
Master's in Public Policy and Development, Paris School of Economics (PSE)
2015–2017
Graduate student in theoretical physics, Cornell University
2013–2015
Master's in Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2013–2015
Minor in Mathematics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2010–2013
Bachelor in Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2010
French Baccalaureate and Austrian Matura

Teaching

Economics

Spring 2021 & 2022
Econometrics 2: Treatment effect models, Paris School of Economics
  • Course for first-year Master's students in Public Policy and Development
  • Introduction to causal analysis in economics: Rubin causal model, RCT, LATE, RDD, DiD and matching
Spring 2020
Econometrics 3, Paris School of Economics
  • Course for first-year Master's students in Public Policy and Development
  • Covers limited dependent variable models, sample selection and panel methods

Physics

2015–2017
Graduate teaching assistant, Cornell University
  • Intermediate Mechanics
  • "Why is the sky blue?", for non-science majors
  • Physics Auto-tutorial, a physics class on Electromagnetism, Waves, Optics and Quantum Mechanics aimed mainly at pre-med students
  • Second-year Electromagnetism for engineers
2012–2015
Undergraduate teaching assistant, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  • First-year Mechanics for engineers; I taught two classes, one in German and the other in French
  • First-year Mechanics and Thermodynamics
  • Analytical Mechanics for second-year physics students
  • Electromagnetism for engineers
  • Fluid Mechanics, Waves and Electromagnetism for mathematicians

Awards

August 2015
Award for the second-best GPA in the EPFL Master's curriculum
2013, 2014
EPFL Excellence Fellowship