Dr. Simos was born in Athens in 1967. He received his B.A. from the University of Crete in 1990, majoring in Psychology, and MA (1993) and Ph.D. degrees in Experimental Psychology-Biopsychology (1995) from Southern Illinois University. After completing a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology he served as Assistant (1996-2001) and Associate Professor (2001-2003) at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas-Houston Medical School. Between 1995-2003 he served as member of the Clinical Neurosciences Group performing Intraoperative Electrophysiological Monitoring, Microelectrode-assisted Pallidotomy, presurgical mapping of language-specific cortex and presurgical localization of epileptic foci using Magnetic Source Imaging at Herman Memorial Hospital, Houston, Texas.
He joined the Department of Psychology, University of Crete (UoC), as Associate Professor (2003) and then Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology (2008), serving as Deputy Chairman and Director of the Graduate Programs in School and Health Psychology and Director of the Applied Psychology Laboratory.
Since 2010 he is Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, UoC, and runs the Neuropsychology Service at the Heraklion University Hospital. He coordinates the Psychiatry undergraduate course (4th year), the Psychology Core course in the Brain and Mind Graduate program and the Systems Neuroscience Core course in the Neuroscience Graduate program, UoC. He also teaches at the Clinical Neuropsychology graduate program, University of Athens, Medical School. In 2014 he joined the Computational Biomedicine Lab, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH).
His research has been supported by several grants in the US (NICHD, NSF, NINDS), EU (Horizon 2020-Personalized Medicine, MSCA), and national grants (EPEAEK, ARISTEIA, ELIDEK, EPAnEK, Interreg, Heraklitos). He has served as ad hoc member on NIH grant review panels, reviewer for many neuroscience and psychology journals, and Editorial Board member for Developmental Neuropsychology and Annals of Dyslexia.
He has published more than 240 research papers in top peer-reviewed journals in Neuropsychology and Neurology, 34 chapters and 2 monographs, and his work has received over 14000 citations in Google Scholar (h-index 65) and 8000 citations in Scopus (h-index 47). He has developed and adapted in Greek several psychometric instruments for cognitive and linguistic abilities in children including batteries for executive functions, receptive and expressive language, and intelligence.