Seminarium Zakładu Biofizyki

This presentation will provide an overview of my past research, with a special emphasis on applications of EPR spectroscopy to copper-binding peptides and proteins involved in health and disease. I will also outline my current interests and future research goals.

Bio:Simon obtained a PhD specialising in paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy from the School of Physics, Monash University, Australia, in 2002. This was followed by postdoctoral research in magnetic resonance imaging (2002–2004) and bioinorganic chemistry (2004–2006) at the Centre for Magnetic Resonance, University of Queensland, Australia. From 2006–2009, he was a research fellow in the Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Australia, gaining wet-lab experience in the biosciences. In 2010–2011, he obtained valuable international experience at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Germany, before returning to the University of Melbourne to start an independent laboratory in the Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health (2012–2016) and the Department of Medicine (2017–2018). He subsequently relocated to the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (2018–2021) and was a visiting scientist at the Pasteur Institute, Paris (2022–2023). He remains an honorary research fellow in the Department of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), University of Melbourne.