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Daniel Simon

Professor, Head of Unit

Principal Investigator in Organic Bioelectronics, Laboratory of Organic Electronics

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Professor Daniel Simon is the Organic Bioelectronics group leader at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Georgia, Athens (USA) in 2000, where he participated in theoretical condensed matter research under Michael Geller. 

In 2001, he began his graduate work in the Physics department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA). There, he joined the laboratory of Sue Carter, studying a range of topics in polymer-based electronics.  In 2004, Daniel received his Master's degree, based on electronically patterned polymer films on micro-electrode arrays. 

In the Spring of 2007, he earned his PhD, based on polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) and nanoparticle-based non-volatile memory (in collaboration with Campbell Scott and Luisa Bozano at IBM Almaden). Later that year, he joined the Laboratory of Organic Electronics as a postdoctoral researcher, where he focused on converting an in vitro delivery technology for use in a living animal, and later for self-regulating artificial neuron functionality.

Since 2011, he has led – and significantly expanded – the organic bioelectronics and iontronics activities at LOE. In 2013, he became Assistant Professor, in 2016, he earned his docenture and became Associate Professor, and in 2022, he became full Professor. In 2022, he also joined the Program Office of the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE, wise-materials.org) where he oversees recruitment and sub-project activities. 

 

Sammanträde, Magnus Berggren och Daniel SimonFrom left, Magnus Berggren and Daniel Simon during a meeting at LOE.
Photo credit: Thor Balkhed

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Education

2007 – PhD in Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz

2004 – Masters in Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz

2000 – Bachelors in Physics, University of Georgia, Athens

Positions

2022-present – Professor, Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University

2016-2022 – Associate Professor, LOE, LiU

2013-2016 – Assistant Professor, LOE, LiU

2011-2103 – Assistant Research Professor, LOE, LiU

2009-2011 – Postdoctoral Researcher, 50% Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, and 50% LOE, LiU

2007-2009 – Postdoctoral Scholarship, LOE, LiU

Research

News

Iontronic pump in thin blood vessels.

More effective cancer treatment with iontronic pump

When low doses of cancer drugs are administered continuously near malignant brain tumours using so-called iontronic technology, cancer cell growth drastically decreases. This is demonstrated in experiments with bird embryos.

Translucent droplet on an electronic circiut.

Electrodes grown in the brain

The boundaries between biology and technology are becoming blurred. Researchers at Linköping, Lund, and Gothenburg universities in Sweden have successfully grown electrodes in living tissue using the body’s molecules as triggers.

Close-up on part of an ion pump.

An ion pump to deliver chemotherapy agents to the brain

Despite surgery and subsequent treatment with chemotherapy and radiation, the majority of patients experience recurrence of malignant brain tumours. Researchers at LiU have shown that an ion pump can be used to treat brain cancer.

Publications

2024

Changbai Li, Sajjad Naeimipour, Fatemeh Rasti Boroojeni, Tobias Abrahamsson, Xenofon Strakosas, Yangpeiqi Yi, Rebecka Rilemark, Caroline Lindholm, Venkata Perla, Chiara Musumeci, Yuyang Li, Hanne Biesmans, Marios Savvakis, Eva Olsson, Klas Tybrandt, Mary Donahue, Jennifer Gerasimov, Robert Selegård, Magnus Berggren, Daniel Aili, Daniel Simon (2024) Engineering Conductive Hydrogels with Tissue-like Properties: A 3D Bioprinting and Enzymatic Polymerization Approach SMALL SCIENCE (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Bernhard Burtscher, Chiara Diacci, Anatolii Makhinia, Marios Savvakis, Erik O. Gabrielsson, Lothar Veith, Xianjie Liu, Xenofon Strakosas, Daniel T. Simon (2024) Functionalization of PEDOT:PSS for aptamer-based sensing of IL6 using organic electrochemical transistors npj Biosensing, Vol. 1, Article 7 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ihor Sahalianov, Tobias Abrahamsson, Diana Priyadarshini, Abdelrazek H. Mousa, Katriann Arja, Jennifer Y. Gerasimov, Mathieu Linares, Daniel T. Simon, Roger Olsson, Glib Baryshnikov, Magnus Berggren, Chiara Musumeci (2024) Tuning the Emission of Bis-ethylenedioxythiophene-thiophenes upon Aggregation Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tomohiro Shiraki, Yoshiaki Niidome, Arghyamalya Roy, Magnus Berggren, Daniel Simon, Eleni Stavrinidou, Gábor Méhes (2024) Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Wrapped with Charged Polysaccharides Enhance Extracellular Electron Transfer ACS Applied Bio Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Verena Handl, Linda Waldherr, Theresia Arbring Sjöström, Tobias Abrahamsson, Maria S Seitanidou, Sabine Erschen, Astrid Gorischek, Iwona Bernacka Wojcik, Helena Saarela, Tamara Tomin, Sophie Elisabeth Honeder, Joachim Distl, Waltraud Huber, Martin Asslaber, Ruth Birner-Gruenberger, Ute Schaefer, Magnus Berggren, Rainer Schindl, Silke Patz, Daniel Simon, Nassim Ghaffari-Tabrizi-Wizsy (2024) Continuous iontronic chemotherapy reduces brain tumor growth in embryonic avian in vivo models Journal of Controlled Release, Vol. 369, p. 668-683 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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