PhD STUDENT
Simon is a medical doctor who graduated from the University of Bergen in 2016 and is currently a neurology resident. His clinical and research interests focus on movement disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, with particular emphasis on Parkinson’s disease. He has been actively involved in Parkinson’s disease research at Neuro-SysMed since 2020 and serves as the coordinating investigator of the STRAT-PARK study. In 2025, he completed his PhD with the thesis “Exploring clinical biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease.” Following his PhD, Simon was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from Helse Vest and serves as the principal investigator of the SLEIPNIR platform trial.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8507-8127

