Based on his training in Computer Science and Mathematics, Simon was awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Studentship to pursue a Systems Biology PhD from the University of Manchester. Following his PhD in 2013, and a brief visiting researcher position at the University of Warwick, Simon undertook postdoctoral training in Prof Alexander Hoffmann’s lab at UCLA (USA). Simon was awarded a UCLA Collaboratory Fellowship to pursue collaborative research and graduate-level teaching for four consecutive years. Simon has published numerous first-author papers (including in Immunity, PNAS and PLOS Computational Biology), multiple reviews, contributed a chapter describing computational modeling approaches to textbooks of laboratory techniques, and contributed to multiple successfully-funded NIH grants. Driven to use systems biology to translate findings from molecular biology to clinical insight Simon joined BSMS in 2019.
Since joining BSMS simon has obtained a Leukaemia UK John Goldman fellowship and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. Simon is a member of the NCRI Lymphoma Science Group.