Simcha is the Professor of Management and Healthcare Innovation and Deputy Director Research at the University College London Global Business School for Health (GBSH). He is also the Program Director of the DBA Health program at UCL GBSH. Simcha has been a Professor at Leiden University since 2016. He has been on a 10% appointment since June 2023.

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Simcha is the Professor of Management and Healthcare Innovation and Deputy Director Research at the University College London Global Business School for Health (GBSH). He is also the Program Director of the DBA Health program at UCL GBSH. Simcha has been a Professor at Leiden University since 2016. He has been on a 10% appointment since June 2023.

Simcha has also held visiting appointments at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2015-2016), LUISS Business School (2020), École Polytechnique (2021- ), and the University of Eastern Finland (2021- ).

Simcha currently leads an ERC Consolidator project on the organisation of international R&D consortia. His research also focuses on the themes of innovation for health and science commercialisation. Simcha has also been the recipient of funding from major funding bodies such as Innovate UK, ESRC, NESTA, NIHR, Wellcome Trust, and BIS, as well as various industry partners for projects in the field of healthcare innovation.

Simcha has a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, an MPhil in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge (first class honours with distinction level), and a BA in Social Science from Utrecht University’s University College (cum laude). In addition, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley.

Simcha’s research has been published in leading international scientific and management journals, including Nature Biotechnology, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, Technovation, and Industrial and Corporate Change. Simcha was elected Honorary Cambridge University European Trust Scholar, was awarded the first prize in the PRIME Early Career Competition, a DIME WP European Framework Grant for qualitative research on university entrepreneurship, a Georgia Tech Science and Technology policy conference early career prize, and an Academy of Management OB Most Innovative Student paper award.

PhD and Postdoctoral researchers from Simcha’s group moved on to academic positions in management and science policy at Columbia University, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Leiden University, Warwick Business School, Georgia Tech, National Taiwan University, SPRU, Middlesex University, CUNEF University, and UCL.