Simon joined the CHRE project in January 2017 to edit and validate hoards entered into the web app as well as supporting the project's network of collaborators. He will also assist Jerome Mairat with the publication of the Coin Hoarding in the Roman Empire conference. In addition, he will collect and input data on coins hoards of the relevant period from Central and Southern Italy, with an initial focus on Pompeii. His DPhil was written on coins of the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom and he is also currently working as part of the Oxford-Paris Alexander project (OPAL), a joint initiative between the Ashmolean Museum and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.