Simon F. Nørrelykke is a lecturer on Systems Biology at the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include image analysis, deep learning, spatial statistics, and causal inference. He leads the Image Analysis Collaboratory, which works closely with the local life-scientists—teaching, training, and collaborating on image and data analysis projects of all sizes.

Simon holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University, Denmark and has since worked in Florence, Dresden, Princeton, and Zurich. His past research spans econo-physics, optical tweezers, single-molecule biophysics, cell migration, image analysis, and deep learning. At HMS he teaches and practices image processing and data analysis and heads the IAC initiative since 2022.