A research engineer in biomolecule development, Philippe Simon obtained his PhD in bio-organic chemistry from Grenoble's Joseph-Fourier University in 2004, then completed a post-doctorate in nucleic acid chemistry at the Paris Natural History Museum before joining the laboratory in 2011. He is developing syntheses of substrate analogues, inhibitors and labeled precursors for the biochemical and mechanistic study of ubiquinone biosynthesis enzymes.