Simon is a central reader for numerous phase III treatment trials of antifibrotic therapy, including INBUILD. He regularly lectures on the imaging of diffuse lung diseases nationally and internationally and has over 170 publications on this subject. He is a member of the Fleischner Society, an Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal, on the Editorial Board of Chest and The Lancet Digital Health and Academic Imaging Lead for the Australian IPF Registry. In 2017 he founded a global imaging repository for fibrotic lung disease imaging that promotes machine learning research in pulmonary fibrosis, called The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC), the largest imaging biorepository for lung fibrosis globally. Simon is a member of the ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT IPF Guideline Committee and ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Guideline Committee.

Simon enjoys playing on Topcoder and can often be found trading sleep for deep sky astrophotography, his home observatory in southeast England. The image above, shows the landing parachute of the Perseverance rover, currently on Mars. The parachute contains a hidden message in binary code, within the white and orange gores, or triangles of fabric. It includes the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory motto, “Dare mighty things,” as well as GPS coordinates for JPL in Pasadena, California