Simon Mayer

Associate Professor of Finance

Tepper School of Business

BIO

Simon Mayer is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. He joined Carnegie Mellon University in summer 2023. Prior to joining CMU, Simon has been faculty at HEC Paris and a research fellow at Chicago Booth. He received his PhD in Financial Economics in 2021 at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests include Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Private Capital Markets, and Financial Technology. Simon has published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. At Tepper, he is teaching courses on Corporate Finance and Financial Markets.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor of Finance
    Tepper School of BusinessCarnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Sep 2023 - present
  • Carnegie Bosch Junior Faculty Chair
    Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jul 2024 - present
  • Associate Professor of Finance
    Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jul 2026 - present

DEGREES

  • Ph.D. in in Financial Economics (cum laude)
    Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands2021
  • M.Sc. in Economics
    University of Amsterdam nd Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands2017
  • B.Sc. in Mathematics (Minor: Computer Science)
    University of Wuerzburg, Germany2014

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh