Later, Simon went to Cambridge University. He enrolled there to complete is Ph.D. His mentor at Cambridge University was known to be Harry Blackmore Whittington. Simon was also honored with the award of Walcott Medal along with Lyell Medal.

Talking about his career, Simon worked on Cambrian Explosion and the theory got him a lot of fame at the University of Cambridge. In this work, he basically studied fossil and fauna of Burgess Shale. He also studied the fossils in China. It is also known that Simon also worked in Greenland, Mongolia and even Canada. Simon also got a chance to work in the United States of America.

Simon also did a research on the evolution of skeletons. Recently, Simon made a news because of a publication. He made an announcement that some of the most important ancestors of vertebrates were discovered by his team. The announcement was made in January 2017 and the announcement gained a lot of public attention. He also submitted several papers on Burgess Shales.

Simon had been very interested in the evolution of life and he published a paper with the title, Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. The paper was published in 2003 and the part was about the convergence of life on earth. Simon has also worked on TV and Radio as he delivered several lectures. His lectures are attended by a lot of students and scholars.

It is known that he is very particular about his religion and that Simon is often involved in debates related to science and religion. As per one his lecture, he believes that the process of evolution is in resonance with the existence of God.

In 2009, he also got a chance to deliver a lecture at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The title of the lecture was related to Biological Evolution. Simon was also awarded by Trotter Prize in 2007. A lot of people love attending his lecture but there are people who find his lectures contradictory because the people claim that the science cannot prove the existence of god and his lecture about the evolution of life talks about the existence of god. So in some way or the other, Simon also received a little criticism.

It is known that Simon is married but there is no information available about his wife. Simon is catholic by religion. On the public portal, there is no information available about his annual salary. Simon’s net worth is also not known but he surely has a high net worth because he acquired a lot of property from his parents.