Hi! I'm Simon Merminod, PhD.

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

My research investigates biophysics, complex systems, and self-organization through experimental innovation, automated system design, and rigorous computational methods.

Currently, in the group of Maxim Prigozhin at Harvard, I focus on:

• Computational: I architected a Bayesian classification framework to automate the analysis of noisy, multi-modal electron microscopy and cathodoluminescence images. [GitHub repo]

• Experimental: I am developing a cryo-plunger that synchronizes stimulation and vitrification with millisecond precision, capturing fast, non-equilibrium dynamics in biological systems.

Previously, 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.

I completed my PhD in 2016 with Michael Berhanu and Eric Falcon at Université Paris Cité (formerly Paris Diderot), France, where I investigated non-equilibrium properties and self-organization in magnetized granular matter.