Simon Ollivier is a Ph.D. candidate in mass spectrometry at the BIBS facility in Nantes, under the supervision of Dr Hélène Rogniaux and Dr David Ropartz (BIA research unit; French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment INRAE). He obtained a M.Sc. from the University of Angers, and a Pharm.D. from the University of Rennes.
Simon is currently conducting research aiming to explore the potential of high-resolution ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) in structural glycosciences. Indeed, carbohydrates are riddled with isomerisms that make their structures difficult to characterize with mass spectrometry (MS) alone. His work aims to demonstrate that high-resolution cyclic IMS-MS affords the fine structural characterization of oligosaccharides at the isomeric level.
