Simon F. Nørrelykke is Executive Director of the Center for Imaging, EPFL’s platform for image analysis and computational imaging.

Trained as a physicist, he obtained his PhD from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and has worked for more than 15 years at the interface of imaging, quantitative data analysis, artificial intelligence, and scientific research infrastructure.

Before joining EPFL in 2026, he founded and directed the Image Analysis Collaboratory at Harvard Medical School and previously established the Image and Data Analysis group at ScopeM, ETH Zurich.

Earlier in his career, he conducted research at institutions including Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, with work spanning theoretical and experimental biophysics, stochastic processes, numerical simulations, and quantitative data analysis.

His more recent work has focused on building interdisciplinary imaging and image-analysis capabilities, training programs, and scientific communities around computational imaging and open-source image analysis.

He has also founded or co-founded several international imaging and bioimage-analysis initiatives, including SwissBIAS, ZIDAS, GloBIAS, and NEUBIAS.