Ján Šimon was born in 1980 in Martin, Slovakia. He studied at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he completed the master's degree in environmental physics (2004). He continued in studies of nuclear and subnuclear physics at the same faculty, where he completed PhD. degree in 2010. He currently works at the Department of Applied Mathematics on the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Žilina where he is giving lectures on mathematics and conducting research in field of applied nuclear physics, knot efficiency related theoretical and experimental problems, general mathematics and statistics. Outside the field of employment, he’s active climber, ski-mountaineer, mountain rescuer, the head of the expert commission in Slovak mountaineering association (SVTS).