Hi! I'm Simon Merminod, PhD.

I am a soft matter physicist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

I am interested in addressing problems in biophysics, self-organization, and granular matter.

Currently, in the group of Maxim Prigozhin at Harvard, I am developing a cryo-plunger to achieve cryo-vitrification with sub-millisecond time-resolution—a method that will enable capturing some of the fastest processes in biology.

As a postdoc with W. Benjamin Rogers at Brandeis University, I studied the energetics and dynamics of multivalent ligand-receptor binding between colloidal particles and lipid membranes, using DNA nanotechnology.

I completed my Ph.D. in 2016 with Michael Berhanu and Eric Falcon at Paris Diderot University, France. My Ph.D. research focused on non-equilibrium properties and self-organization of magnetized and vibrated granular particles.