Job Market Candidates
Meet the scholars who will shape the future of business.
Simon PhD students are analytical, creative, and well-versed in solving complex business problems. There isn’t a conventional Simon candidate; we help each student maximize their own unique potential.
Inside the Simon Finance PhD
Simon’s methodological approach to finance emphasize formal modeling of problems and empirical testing of alternative theories. Explore problems of corporate financial policy, individual consumption-investment choices, and capital market equilibrium in an uncertain environment using principles of price theory, mathematics, and statistics as a basis.
Learn more about our students seeking placements.
Nicolas de Souza
Area of Study: Finance
ndesouza@simon.rochester.edu
https://sites.google.com/view/nicolasdesouza/home
Curriculum vitae
Prior Education
University of Rochester, Department of Economics, MA in Economics
Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV), Sao Paulo School of Economics, MS in Economics
University of Sao Paulo, School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, BS in Economics
Research Interests
Financial Intermediation, Banking, Contracts and Security Design, Economic Theory
Jiaqi Qu
Area of Study: Finance
https://sites.google.com/view/jiaqi-qu
Curriculum vitae
Prior Education
London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc in Finance and Economics
University of Sydney, Bachelor in Commerce (First Class Honour)
Research Interests
Empirical Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Partisanship, ESG
Yanting Huang
Area of Study: Finance
Prior Education
Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management, BA in Economics
Tsinghua University, PBC School of Finance, MS in Finance