Pierre Simon is Charge de recherche, CNRS, at Universite Lyon 1, France. He completed his PhD at Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay under the supervision of Elisabeth Bourscaren. His thesis, 'Ordre et stabilite dans les theories NIP', received the 2012 Sacks Prize for the best thesis in logic that year as well as the Perrissin-Pirasset/Schneider prize from the Chancellerie des Universites de Paris.