Philipp Simon, M.D. currently works as a senior physician in the intensive care unit of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Leipzig Medical Centre, Germany. After completing his medical studies, he began training as an anaesthesiologist in 2009, which he completed in 2014. He also acquired the additional qualifications for intensive and emergency medicine. He received his doctorate in 2010 and has since been working on the optimisation of machine ventilation using electrical impedance tomography for visualisation and, as a second research focus, on the optimisation of antibiotic therapy in obese patients. In this context, microdialysis technology is used to determine the concentration. He is a member of the SEPNET research group, DGAI, DIVI, ESICM and German Sepsis Society.