Rozalyn Simon is an Associate Professor in Neuroimaging at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying meditation practice, the brain-gut-microbiome axis in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and the physiological and cognitive processes that contribute to fatigue across patient populations. She also serves as Director of Forum Scientium, an interdisciplinary graduate research school at Linköping University.
Rozalyn earned her interdisciplinary BSc-Premed studying psychology, botany, and anthropology at the University of Georgia before pursuing graduate studies in Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she synthesized small-molecule libraries for cancer research and completed an MSc in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2007. Later that year, she began her doctoral studies at Linköping University, developing small molecules for detecting protein plaques in amyloid diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and was awarded a PhD in Chemistry in 2014.
Her growing interest in the neurological and psychological aspects of Alzheimer’s disease led her to a postdoctoral position in neuroimaging. As a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University’s Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), she investigated the neural correlates of meditation practices and the potential of meditation as an intervention in neurodegenerative disorders using MRI techniques.
Since her appointment as Associate Professor in 2020, Rozalyn has expanded her work to include the gut-brain-microbiota axis in functional gastrointestinal disorders and the study of fatigue as a multidimensional phenomenon across diverse clinical populations. In 2021, she was appointed Director of Forum Scientium, where she leads initiatives to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and graduate training in engineering and the natural and medical sciences.
