Simon finished his medical degree in 2020 and is currently a PhD student at Medical University of Vienna. He is employed at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Health and Bioresources, Competence Unit Medical Signal Analysis. He joined the HD & Co Research Group in 2016 to study the effect of postoperative insulin adherence on post-transplantation diabetes mellitus in kidney transplant recipients in the ITP-NODAT clinical trial.