Simon Dellicour

Simon Dellicour is a bioengineer graduated at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in 2009. He subsequently did a PhD under the supervision of Patrick Mardulyn (ULB, 2009-13), a first post-doc in the team of Oliver Pybus at the University of Oxford (2013-15), a second post-doc in the group of Philippe Lemey at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, 2015-18), and then joined the Spatial Epidemiology Lab. in October 2018 for his third post-doc. In 2020, he became an FNRS Research Associate, a permanent academic position awarded by the Belgian Fonds National pour la Recherche Scientifique. Simon is also a scientific collaborator of the Evolutionary and Computational Virology lab at the Rega Institute (KU Leuven). Simon has broad interests in molecular epidemiology, animal/plant/virus phylogeography, population, landscape and conservation genetics. His main research projects focus on methodological developments and applications in landscape phylogeography.