Nora Szech hold the Chair of Political Economy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) until 2023. She worked on market and competition design, with a focus on information design, AI and morals, combining theoretical as well as empirical research methods. The applications of her work ranged from auction design over labor markets and diversity to ethical consumption and health. Her work was published in leading interdisciplinary outlets as well as in leading field journals (such as Science, Management Science, The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory). Various international and national media outlets reported on her work (such as The Wallstreet Journal, Huffington Post, Forbes, as well as Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die ZEIT). Nora had received the Reinhard Selten Award from the Verein für Socialpolitik. The magazine Capital ranked her “Top 40 under 40“ in the category Society and Science in 2018. Before she joined the KIT in 2013, Nora was Professor for Industrial Economics at the University of Bamberg. She did her postdoc (Akademischer Rat) at the Chair of Benny Moldovanu at the University of Bonn (from 2010 to 2012), where she also did her PhD - as a scholar of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE). Her thesis was awarded the best thesis of the year (2010) at University of Bonn across all fields.