Šimon is a PhD candidate in the Public Policy track. He researches the effects of public policy on innovation using empirical methods from economics and data science. Specifically, he studies the choice of inventors between patents and secrecy, and the effects policy on this choice. Prior to joining us, he worked as an analyst in the European Commission in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Most recently, he was a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Information Science Department. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Postgraduate Researcher Scholarship (2023), the Academic Achievement Award for First-Year PhD students (CEU, 2023), the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (CEU, 2018), and the Visegrad Scholarship (2017).